Quote for Today: Oliver Sacks
To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns …
Quote for Today: Jocelyn Soriano
To be rejected by someone doesn’t mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn’t mean that nobody will ever …
Quote for Today: Parker J. Palmer
Good teaching is an act of hospitality toward the young, and hospitality is always an act that benefits the host even more than the guest. The concept of hospitality arose …
Quote for Today: Martin Luther King, Jr
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all …
Quote for Today: Orhan Pamuk
In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely believe …
Quote for Today: Howard Zinn
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, …
Quote for Today: Carl Sandburg
– Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night. —Carl Sandburg, The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg – Image …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #31: Ale Martore from San Salvador, El Salvador, Mi casa, Mi país
Day 31 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series features the sweet sounds of Ale Martore, a musician from San Salvador, El Salvador. This is Mi casa, Mi País. She wrote this …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #17 from Wuhan, China, via NOWNESS
Day 17: The Globe-trotting Travel Series returns to Wuhan, China, the first city to go on lockdown for Covid-19, with this short film directed by Fanqing and Yurui Chen for …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #13: George the Poet in London, England
Day 13 of the Globe-trotting travel series takes us to London, where George the Poet inspires us with an extremely articulate and hopeful case for collaboration in the face of …