Quote for Today: Ursula K. Le Guin
It is hard to meet a stranger. Even the greatest extravert meeting even the meekest stranger knows a certain dread, though he may not know he knows it. Will he …
Quote for Today: Salman Rushdie
Everywhere was now a part of everywhere else. Russia, America, London, Kashmir. Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete. This unsettled people. …
Quote for Today: Audre Lorde
I have seen situations where white women hear a racist remark, resent what has been said, become filled with fury, and remain silent because they are afraid. That unexpressed …
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 …
Featured Artist: Kathy McVittie
Synkroniciti is excited to welcome back writer and poet Kathy McVittie from Scotland. Her earthy voice is featured in “Wort-shop,” a poem that digs into the ground of the creative …
Quote for Today: Patti Smith
When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. “I can’t do this,” I said. “I don’t …
Quote for Today: Anaïs Nin
It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness …
Quote for Today: C. JoyBell C.
The majority of people have successfully alienated themselves from change; they tediously arrange their lives into a familiar pattern, they give themselves to normalcy, they are proud if they are …
Quote for Today: Aristotle
Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being …
Quote for Today: Maurice Sendak
. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations …