Synkroniciti is thrilled to announce the winner of our “Curiosity” Poetry Contest, “Questions” by Merryn Rutledge. There were two other finalists: “Prisms” by Stacie Eirich and “Ocean, Ocean” by Lori …
The individual is fast disappearing as a business factor and in his stead is this new device, the modern corporation . . . The influence of this change upon character …
Who am I? Everybody. As Whitman said: “I am large, I contain multitudes.” Individuals within that multitude are always flickering on and off within me, stepping forward, then receding. And …
And despite the punishments for boundary crossing, we continue to live, daily, with all our contradictory differences. Here I still stand, unmistakably “feminine” in style, and “womanly” in personal experience–and …
Am I making something worth while? I’m not sure. I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time about my life and choices making ways, …
You have to bring all of yourself into a room, not just the parts that fit in. —Lin-Manuel Miranda, at the America Adelante Conference, Harvard, 2018 Photo by Jorge Saavedra on Unsplash
We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we …
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding …
Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present …
…those who value stability, who fear transience, uncertainty, change, have erected a powerful system of stigmas and taboos against rootlessness, that disruptive, anti-social force, so that we mostly conform, we …
