Quote for Today: Thrity Umrigar
We are earthbound creatures, Maggie had thought. No matter how tempting the sky. No matter how beautiful the stars. No matter how deep the dream of flight. We are creatures …
Quote for Today: Rachel Naomi Remen
Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don’t do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling …
Quote for Today: Brian Eno
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self …
Quote for Today: Henry Melvill
You live not for yourselves; you cannot live for yourselves; a thousand fibers connect you with your fellow-men, and along those fibers, as along sympathetic threads, run your actions …
Quote for Today: Jacob Nordby
There are no self-made heroes or leaders. No matter how rugged or self-assured, everyone requires a cast of players – friends, mentors, lovers, critics, villains and supporters – who …
Look and Listen #32: The Vásquez García family, weavers from Teotitlán, Mexico via Craft in America
This is an inspiring feature on the Vásquez García family, weavers from Teotitlán, Oaxaca, Mexico. They are part of a movement in the region that is returning to natural dyes …
Quote for Today: Robert Mcfarlane
Paths are the habits of a landscape. They are acts of consensual making. It’s hard to create a footpath on your own…Paths connect. This is their first duty and their …
Look and Listen #31: The Activism of Sofia Ashraf
Sofia Ashraf was raised in a conservative Muslim family in south India, but she always loved the stage. Despite coming from a household where musical instruments were banned and nice …
Quote for Today: Jon Kabat-Zinn
We resonate with one another’s sorrows because we are interconnected. Being whole and simultaneously part of a larger whole, we can change the world simply by changing ourselves. If I …
Quote for Today: Anna Deavere Smith
The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are the mask, and the perception, are reluctant to give over …