Quote for Today: Alicia Garza
Diversity is what happens when you have representation of various groups in one place. Representation is what happens when groups that haven’t previously been included, are included. Intersectionality is what …
Featured Artist: Lori Lasseter Hamilton
Synkroniciti is pleased to welcome back poet Lori Lasseter Hamilton with “Empower Me,” an extremely vulnerable and personal piece about rape. The violence and the physical damage are shocking, but …
Quote for Today: Charlotte Eriksson
Where are our heroes? Where are our role models? Why are we leaving youth behind and laughing at the ones who are still there? Why not help each other out …
Quote for Today: Anne Lamott
It is unearned love–the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It’s the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are …
Quote for Today: Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the …
Quote for Today: Mitch Albom
Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a …
Quote for Today: Jacob Nordby
There are no self-made heroes or leaders. No matter how rugged or self-assured, everyone requires a cast of players – friends, mentors, lovers, critics, villains and supporters – who …
Look and Listen #30: Aniyah Smith, Healing
Healing is a poem by Aniyah Smith, a New York based poet from Washington, DC. She was the 2018 DC Youth Poet Laureate, 2018 DC Youth Slam Grand Slam Team …
40 days of poetry: Day 23: Kindness: Naomi Shihab Nye
The poem for Day 23 is Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye. May we all use our trials to learn how to be kind rather than getting bitter and mean.
Quote for Today: Mary Hunter Austin
There are many areas in the desert where drinkable water lies within a few feet of the surface, indicated by the mesquite and the bunch grass ( Sporobolus airoides ). …