Quote for Today: Walt Whitman
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than …
Quote for Today: Vera Nazarian
If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, …
Quote for Today: Doris Lessing
Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who …
Quote for Today: Derek Rydall
On the journey of spiritual transformation you want to lose your baggage. In fact, you want to make sure all of it is lost, so that, when you reach …
Quote for Today: Albert Camus
But above all, in order to be, never try to seem. ―Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951 Image: the mask © W H with CCLicense
Quote for Today: L.M. Montogomery
“Oh, here we are at the bridge. I’m going to shut my eyes tight. I’m always afraid going over bridges. I can’t help imagining that perhaps, just as we …
Quote for Today: Theodore Roethke
My truths are all foreknown, This anguish self-revealed. I’m naked to the bone, With nakedness my shield. Myself is what I wear: I keep the spirit spare. ―Theodore Roethke, from …
Quote for Today: Sinclair Lewis
Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure …
Separated from our Roots: Offshore by Kelly Ledsinger
There are emotions that are universal, or nearly so. The paradox is that they feel personal and difficult to share. Kelly Ledsinger shared this poem, entitled Offshore, at our last Open Mic, The Journey. …
The Message is the Journey: Trail Therapy with Steve Fugate
A snaggle-toothed and grizzled man walks along the road, supplies for his journey rolling behind him. How do you react? To be honest, people who share the road with Steve …