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 …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #11: Rome, Italy by Drone via ANSA
Day 11 of our Globe-trotting Travel Series features a beautiful drone fly-over of Rome, Italy, released by the Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (Associated Press National Agency). It is amazing to …
Quote for Today: Marie-Louise Sjoestedt
The inscriptions (mere names or epithets of divinities) and the monuments (in so far as they are purely Celtic, for we must reckon with the possibility of Roman influence) give …
Quote for Today: Carl Sagan
Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to …
Quote for Today: Jill Christman
Those books, pasted together by my grandmother, year after year, replaced the cognitive exercise of memory for me. Sitting on a section of wall-to-wall carpeting, drinking the bubbling red birch …
Quote for Today: Nancy Moser
There is much more to playing the clavier than playing written music. Do you realize with accompanying there is often nothing written out but the bass line–the left hand? …
Quote for Today: Glenn Haybittle
I thought of that lost book and all the memories it held and how it was just one of millions of objects in the world loaded with secret history which …
Quote for Today: Bianca Scardoni
Everything about the house was rich, and dense, and rooted. It was everything I wasn’t. Even the air, with its distinct smell of oak wood and sage, spoke to its …
Bound Together: Ancestry and Prejudice in Louis Erdrich’s The Plague of Doves
How much do the actions and thoughts of our ancestors shape our lives and limit our experience? Louise Erdrich’s A Plague of Doves tells the story of residents in the tiny …
Quote for Today: Steve Maraboli
It is surprising to me that one of the great crimes of history has gone unnoticed; the abduction of god by religions. This slight-of-hand has been the cause of countless …