Quote for Today: Aberjhani
On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other’s humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by …
Quote for Today: Paulo Coelho
I’m always a mystery to myself. If I knew in the first hours of the morning, what I’m going to do, what is going to happen, what attitude or decision …
Quote for Today: Anonymous
Everyone you meet comes with baggage; find someone who cares enough to help you unpack. Image: Girl in a suitcase © Andy Powell with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Natalie Goldberg
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at …
Quote for Today: Tom Stoppard
Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense …
Quote for Today: Goldie Hawn
The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you …
Quote for Today: Nancy Mairs
Out of the new arrivals in our lives–the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night through the cat door, the …
Old Beginnings: Dara Horn’s The World to Come
Languages fade from tongue and memory. Stories are lost. Do we have a right or a duty to tell them? Dara Horn’s The World to Come is a sprawling family saga that encompasses the …
Quote for Today: Henri Nouwen
To care means first of all to empty our own cup and to allow the other to come close to us. It means to take away the many barriers which …
A New Image of Community: Lars and the Real Girl
Critics often praise pessimism over optimism. What if portraying the unconventional and exceptional helps create a kinder world? Video via MOVIECLIPS Classic Trailers on YouTube. Lars Lindstrom is twenty-seven years old, withdrawn and incommunicative. He’s …