Quote for Today: Brandan Robertson
What if one’s tendency to go wandering off is truly a gift? What if the driving force beneath the curiosity that leads a person to wander off the beaten path …
Quote for Today: Henri J.M. Nouwen
Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don’t receive what I deserve. It always …
Quote for Today: Gayle Rubin
Our categories are important. We cannot organize a social life, a political movement, or our individual identities and desires without them. The fact that categories invariably leak and can never …
Quote for Today: J.R.R. Tolkien
In this box there is earth from my orchard, and such blessing as Galadriel has still to bestow is upon it. It will not keep you on your road, …
“Dandelion” by Nino Khundadze wins Synkroniciti’s “Present” Cover Contest
Anyone who has blown the seeds from a dandelion head knows how, in a moment, a breath renders it empty, spreading those seeds that continue the plant. …
Quote for Today: Erin Morgenstern
“It is important,” the man in the grey suit interrupts. “Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their …
Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated …
Quote for Today: Scott Stabile
Share your gifts. Learn from the gifts of others. Stay open to whichever role — teacher and/or student — life is calling on you to play. And bring as much …
Quote for Today: Robin Wall Kimmerer
In a garden, food arises from partnership. If I don’t pick rocks and pull weeds, I’m not fulfilling my end of the bargain. I can do these things with …
Quote for Today: Twyla Tharp
Here’s how I learned to improvise: I played some music in the studio and I started to move. It sounds obvious, but I wonder how many people, whatever their medium, …