Quote for Today: Henry Beston
We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature …
Quote for Today: Tana French
I’m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the first thing we ever did, …
Featured Artist: Sara McAulay
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome back poet and writer Sara McAulay, who won our spring poetry contest with “In the beginning,” an indictment of human indifference for our Earth, the …
Quote for Today: Henry Beston
Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. Primitive folk, gathered at a cave mouth round …
Quote for Today: Arthur Conan Doyle
“My dear fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind …
40 days of poetry: Day 34: Tidings by Czeslaw Milosz
Day 34: Today’s poem is Tidings by Czeslaw Milosz. It’s a beautiful poem about the beauty and tragedy of civilization. How can we even begin to define or describe it?
Quote for Today: Hayao Miyazaki
In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way. As humans grew stronger, I think …
Portraits of a Nation: The Devastating Beauty of Yemen
Challenged by the unknown and unfamiliar, we often turn away. Can our curiosity help us to become better, kinder people? This is the first post of a series exploring foreign …
Quote for Today: Frédéric Gros
None of your knowledge, your reading, your connections will be of any use here: two legs suffice, and big eyes to see with. Walk alone, across mountains or through forests. …
A Question of Currency: Mark Wagner’s Money is Material
Reality is shaped by human constructs of which nature never dreamed. Art exposes and reevaluates these things, creating necessary discomfort. Let’s talk about money, once labeled the “root of all …