Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated and carried …
Facing Cancer: Yo soy un Corazón by Katherine McDaniel
This poem explores a woman’s thoughts about her cancer diagnosis. Can creativity help us deal with life’s twists and turns? Several years ago, I participated in a program sponsored by Houston Grand …
Quote for Today: L. Frank Baum
“All the same,” said the Scarecrow, “I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had …
Protecting Nature’s Heart: The Dream of the Green Lady by Katherine McDaniel
Our planet is a complex and beautiful incubator for life. How can we experience our connection to her more fully? I bought a set of acrylic paints by …
Quote for Today: Gustave Flaubert
Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me …
Quote for Today: Mary Roach
With the rise of classical Greece, the soul debate evolved into the more familiar heart-versus-brain, the liver having been demoted to an accessory role. We are fortunate that this is …
Quote for Today: John Cusack
Well, anything that’s interesting in a film, or in a character –all your passion, your sex, your anger, your rage, all that– comes from that part of you that you …
Quote for Today: Jeanette Winterson
Your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I relied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter …
Quote for Today: Countee Cullen
From the Dark Tower We shall not always plant while others reap The golden increment of bursting fruit, Not always countenance, abject and mute, That lesser men should hold their …
Quote for Today: A.A. Milne
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude. ―A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh