Oxygen Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even, while it calls the earth its home, the soul. So the merciful, noisy machine stands in our house working away in its lung-like voice. I hear it as I kneel before the fire, stirring with a stick of iron, letting the logs lie more loosely. You, in … Continue reading Quote for Today: Mary Oliver
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Quote for Today: John Milton
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. --John Milton Public Domain Image via PxHere
Quote for Today: Scott Stabile
I choose not to look upon the fact that I am healthy, have food in my refrigerator and have clean water to drink as givens. They are not givens for so many people in our world. The fact that I am safe and (relatively) sane are not givens. That I was born into a family … Continue reading Quote for Today: Scott Stabile
Quote for Today: Richelle Goodrich
It is easy to say I am thankful for the sweet and beautiful things in life: flower gardens, ice cream cones, diamond rings, dances under moonlight, children’s laughter, birdsongs, and the like. The challenge is recognizing things of value in the dark, sour, uglier parts of life. But if you look hard enough, you … Continue reading Quote for Today: Richelle Goodrich
Quote for Today: William Wordsworth
What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; … Continue reading Quote for Today: William Wordsworth
Quote for Today: Heidi Barr
So even though Grandpa's life has closed its final chapter, the story that he embodied continues each time we take a handful of dirt to check moisture levels or turn our head at the sound of the wind shifting directions before a storm. It lives on as we give thanks for the abundance that we … Continue reading Quote for Today: Heidi Barr
Quote for Today: Sylvia Plath
I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn't feel a thing. If Mrs. Guinea had given me a ticket to Europe, or a round-the-world cruise, it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or a street cafe in … Continue reading Quote for Today: Sylvia Plath
Quote for Today: Thích Nhất Hạnh
If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our … Continue reading Quote for Today: Thích Nhất Hạnh
A Synkroniciti Top Ten List: Most Popular Original Works of 2014
Our second year went by so quickly! Here's the first look back, featuring our most viewed original art of 2014. 2014 was a great year at synkroniciti. We held two successful Open Mics in the Houston area and saw growth in readership, artistic interaction and community building. We've begun to archive original poetry and art, and last week … Continue reading A Synkroniciti Top Ten List: Most Popular Original Works of 2014
Wondrously Made: Nubia’s Shoes by Katherine McDaniel
We all have struggles in our lives, areas in which we are lacking. Why are some of us so resilient? This is the first of three poems which were commissioned by Houston Grand Opera for Houston Artists Respond, based on videos from Baker Ripley Community Center in Houston, Texas. I selected the stories of three women … Continue reading Wondrously Made: Nubia’s Shoes by Katherine McDaniel