Quote for Today: Katherine E. Standefer
“In life as in story,” writes Arthur Frank, “one event is expected to lead to another.” Our medical system has sold us a story of remedy, progress, technology, professionalism, and …
Quote for Today: Tom Robbins
Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn’t understand stability. He’s confused it with rigidity. Our political and economic and social leaders drool about stability constantly. It’s their favorite …
Quote for Today: Frank Herbert
What is the most profound difference between us, between you and me? You already know it. It’s these ancestral memories. Mine come at me in the full glare of awareness. …
Quote for Today: John Holt
What is most surprising of all is how much fear there is in school. Why is so little said about it. Perhaps most people do not recognize fear in children …
Quote for Today: Jenny B. Jones
It was almost painful to watch, that kite of mine. Tethered to the string in my hand. Dancing in the sky all alone. My breath caught in my throat, my …
Quote for Today: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In principle any skill or discipline one can master on one’s own will serve: meditation and prayer if one is so inclined; exercise, aerobics, martial arts for those who prefer …
Featured Artist: Eugenia Grammenou
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome Greek interdisciplinary artist Eugenia Grammenou with a stirring poem, Inner Topography. This piece hits the hard issues of abuse, misogyny and control. Eugenia confronts them …
Quote for Today: Mitch Albom
Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a …
Look and Listen #25: Colored Hearts
This short romantic film directed and written by Robin K. Johnson, who also stars, is a look at the voices that nag those in interracial relationships. Why do we celebrate …
Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is completely understood about poetry or fiction, but it …