40 days of poetry: Day 20: To a Dancer by Katherine McDaniel
40 days of poetry: Day 20: To a Dancer by Katherine McDaniel. This is a poem that I wrote a few years ago. It seems all the more pertinent now …
Quote for Today: Barbara Brown Taylor
Later, when I stood in front of an altar waving incense, I would remember standing in front of the bar at Dante’s waving cigarette smoke out of my face, and …
Quote for Today: David Dark
I want very badly to challenge the ease with which we succumb to the false divide of labels, that moment in which our empathy gives out and we refuse to …
Quote for Today: Bonnie Badenoch
It is rather paradoxical for our task-focused self when it isn’t the quality of the practice, but our honest and humble acceptance of the emerging moment, that prepares us for …
Quote for Today: David Whyte
To want to run away is an essence of being human, it transforms any staying through the transfigurations of choice. To think about fleeing from circumstances, from a marriage, a …
Quote for Today: Charlotte Eriksson
Where are our heroes? Where are our role models? Why are we leaving youth behind and laughing at the ones who are still there? Why not help each other out …
Of Soles and Feathers: Walk in My Shoes
February saw the second Synkroniciti event, themed Walk in My Shoes. It was a great time to recharge batteries and share new creations. We began a wide ranging conversation touching on, …
Quote for Today: Robert Sapolsky
Going easy on ourselves also reflects a key cognitive fact: we judge ourselves by our internal motives and everyone else by their external actions. And thus, in considering our own …
Quote for Today: Karen Armstong
We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic, national or ideological tribe. We need myths …
Quote for Today: Leo Tolstoy
“People speak of the misfortunes of suffering, but if at this moment I were asked: ‘Would you rather be what you were before you were taken prisoner, or go through …