Quote for Today: Lord Byron
Thus sung, or would, or could, or should have sung, The modern Greek, in tolerable verse; If not like Orpheus quite, when Greece was young, Yet in these times he …
Reclaiming Objects: The Playful Art of Federico Uribe
Objects have connotations unrelated to their purpose. Art can stretch these personal and universal undercurrents into something that celebrates life. Federico Uribe was born in 1964 in war-torn Colombia. The …
Quote for Today: E. L. Konigsburg
I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in …
Quote for Today: Louise Erdrich
The music was more than music- at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous. Those powerful …
Quote for Today: Theodore Roethke
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where …
Quote for Today: Lois McMaster Bujold
It’s a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn’t even know you were aiming for. —Lois McMaster Bujold, Cordelia’s Honor Public Domain Image via …
Quote for Today: Neel Mukherjee
Mollycoddling was the mother’s duty; the father’s lay elsewhere. As a consequence, his four older children feared and respected him, as they had been taught to do, and the love …
Quote for Today: Srikumar Rao
When you label so much of what happens to you as ‘bad,’ it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which …
Quote for Today: Anthon St. Maarten
Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive …
Quote for Today: C. JoyBell C.
Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those …