Quote for Today: Eudora Welty
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in …
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in …
“This I did not expect at all. It is what I love about life, that things happen which I do not expect. When I was a girl in Blundermeecen, we …
Dear Fellow Human Being, You are born wild, You do not deserve to be tamed! Tell yourself, You do not deserve this! All those toxic words you have to listen …
To understand a child we have to watch him at play, study him in his different moods; we cannot project upon him our own prejudices, hopes and fears, or mould …
There are no bad drawings. Drawings are experiences. The more you draw, the more experienced you’ll get. In fact, you’ll learn more from bad or unpredictable or weird experiences …
A child’s pleasure in listening to stories lies partly in waiting for things he expects to be repeated: situations, phrases, formulas. Just as in poems and songs the rhymes …
Rhythm would lift the poem off the page, it would bewitch the sounds of language, hypnotize the words into memorable phrases. Rhythm creates a pattern of yearning and expectation, of …
“I’ve been through all this before,” he says to his heart. “Yes, you have been through all this before,” replies his heart. “But you have never been beyond it.” ―Paulo …
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. —Hermann …
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome Houston poet L.A. Merrill with Season of Doves: Not Yet, a beautiful, sculpted reflection on a brood of baby doves growing to adulthood on her porch. …