Quote for Today: Patrick Jennings
Through the window, I saw the beautiful world outside: the sky, the sun, the cacti, the rocks, and the dirt. How I longed to return to it! I licked at …
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
Carrying Home: The Work of Do-ho Suh
Our experience of home deepens and changes with time. Does moving away from our roots help us understand them better? Do-ho Suh grew up fascinated by the sea. His dream was …
Quote for Today: Herman Hesse
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, the longing reveals …
Quote for Today: L. Frank Baum
No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There …
Quote for Today: Terry Pratchett
Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like “zer dark eyes of zer mind” back home in Uberwald, zer would be a sudden crash of thunder,’ said …