Quote for Today: Tom Robbins
Information about time cannot be imparted in a straightforward way. Like furniture, it has to be tipped and tilted to get it through the door. If the past is a …
Quote for Today: Hypatia
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding …
Quote for Today: Margaret Bendroth after Miroslav Volf
Writer Miroslav Volf explains this more poetically. We experience time, he says, the way we hear a beautiful note from a cello. It may sound like a single pitch, but …
Quote for Today: Ayelet Waldman
I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even—no, especially—when the truth is difficult. It’s always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #30: If the World Was a Movie by Hannah Flores the Poet
Day 30 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series features a fantastic first film and video-poetry offering from a very talented American teenager, Hannah Flores the Poet, If the World Was a …
Quote for Today: Becky Chambers
A moth was a caterpillar, once, but it no longer is a caterpillar. It cannot break itself back down, cannot metamorphose in reverse. To try to eat leaves again would …
40 days of poetry: Day 40: History Will Remember by Donna Ashworth
The last of our poems for our 40 days of poetry is History Will Remember by Donna Ashworth. Thanks for listening and note that our new Globe-trotting Travel Series begins …
Quote for Today: Cath Crowley
The past is with me; the present is here. The future is unmapped and changeable. Ours for the imagining: spreading out before us. Sunlight filled, deep blue, and the darkness. …
Quote for Today: Salman Rushdie
What seems to me to be happening is that those people who were once colonized by the language are now rapidly remaking it, domesticating it, becoming more and more relaxed …
Quote for Today: Robert McNair Price
Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to …