“Broken” Featured Artist Merryn Rutledge
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome back poet Merryn Rutledge who won the “Curiosity” poetry contest in our previous issue. “Broken” features two pieces. In “Trying to Imagine From Far Away, …
Quote for Today: Henri Nouwen
Intimacy between people requires closeness as well as distance. It is like dancing. Sometimes we are very close, touching each other or holding each other; sometimes we move away from …
Quote for Today: Steven R. Boyett
You ask me what it feels like to have wings. I can only tell you the feeling with words. And words have neither feelings nor wings. Words are leaky vessels …
Quote for Today: Ocean Vuong
I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn’t trying to make a sentence—I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
When I got to the waterfront, I parked the car beside a deserted warehouse, smoked a cigarette and put Bob Dylan on auto-repeat. I reclined the seat, kicked both …
Quote for Today: Jonathan Goldstein
I turn on my computer to search Craigslist for apartment listings. The wireless window pops up, and I realize with some regret that all I know about my neighbours …
Quote for Today: Beryl Markham
I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except …
Quote for Today: Mehmet Murat İldan
– If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, …
Quote for Today: Mary Oliver
Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and …
Quote for Today: Edwin Powell Hubble
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary—the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors …