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: Oliver Sacks
To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns …
Quote for Today: Lloyd Jones
I had discovered that the plainest house can crown a fantasy or daydream. An open window can be tolerated. So can an open door. But I discovered the value …
Quote for Today: Sara Sheridan
As a reader you recognise that feeling when you’re lost in a book? You know the one – when whatever’s going on around you seems less real than what you’re …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #24: The Forest, Meow Wolf, Santa Fe
Day 24 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series is an escape from the pandemic and quarantine. We find ourselves inside the magical world of Meow Wolf Santa Fe, watching a group …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #21: Company Inq in Chicago, IL, USA
Day 21 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series features Company Inq, a creative design agency based in Chicago, USA. Co-founders John Morrison and Amuse126 put together an international group of artists, …
Quote for Today: Gaston Bachelard
A creature that hides and “withdraws into its shell,” is preparing a “way out.” This is true of the entire scale of metaphors, from the resurrection of a man …
Quote for Today: Vikram Chandra
“Yes,” Sanjay said. “I know I will be reborn, that there is no escape from you. I know my life well and I know that I have not found liberation. …
Quote for Today: Mary Oliver
The Old Poets Of China Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I …
Quote for Today: W.B. Yeats
Come, faeries, take me out of this dull house! Let me have all the freedom I have lost; Work when I will and idle when I will! Faeries, come take …