Portraits of a Nation: The Tenacious Beauty of Sudan
Did you know that Sudan contains more pyramids than Egypt? There is much beauty hidden in this war torn land. Sudan is largely a country of desert, the Sahara reaching …
Building Faerie Houses, Part Two: Faerie House Listing Gallery
Synkroniciti and FAE Realty present recently listed faerie houses, all built at our last synkroniciti gathering, In the Garden. I hope you enjoy looking at them even a quarter as …
Building Faerie Houses, Part One: Synkroniciti “In the Garden”
Last Saturday, April 9th, synkroniciti hosted In the Garden. This time we moved away from prepared pieces to build Faerie Houses. We drifted together slowly. Anticipating that it might be …
Quote for Today: Alain de Botton
We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like …
Quote for Today: Michelle Sagara West
“Home is a strange thing.” “What do you mean?” “We lose it, and we think it’s gone forever. That’s how I felt the first time I lost mine. It took …
Quote for Today: P.S. Baber
You can never really escape. It goes with you, wherever you go. Somehow, the prairie dust gets in your blood, and it flows through your veins until it becomes …
Quote for Today: William Faulkner
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. ―William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying Image © Copyright Neil Theasby with this Creative …
Quote for Today: Jeanette LeBlanc
yes, I have feelings and no, I’m not afraid of them not even the shadowy ones that you’d rather ignore i gather them in welcome them home give them …
Quote for Today: Milan Kundera
The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. ―Milan Kundera, Ignorance
Quote for Today: Alfred Kazin
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others’ minds. —Alfred Kazin