Quote for Today: Mary Wollstonecraft
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their FASCINATING graces, and viewing them as if they were in a …
Featured Artist: Claire Sewell
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome artist and writer Claire Sewell from Houston, Texas. We are featuring Corvus nobilis (for Nicole), a lovely mixed-media assemblage (watercolor on paper and vintage book …
Quote for Today: Tom Waits
I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they …
Quote for Today: Wendell Berry
To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person’s intelligence, not by the ability to recite facts, …
Look and Listen #1: Our Journeys, Our Stories: In Our Own Words by Carolyn Elaine Miller
This is the first post of our new “Listen” series, about the journeys and contributions of people of color. Please take some time to drift through and meditate on this …
Quote for Today: S.T. Gibson
Fairy tales are more than moral lessons and time capsules for cultural commentary; they are natural law. The child raised on folklore will quickly learn the rules of crossroads …
Quote for Today: Martin Luther King, Jr
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction …
Quote for Today: Joseph Joubert
Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that …
Quote for Today: Rob Sheffield
I was helpless in trying to return people’s kindness, but alswo helpless to resist it. Kindness is a scarier force than cruelty, that’s for sure. Cruelty isn’t that hard to …
Quote for Today: L. Frank Baum
“All the same,” said the Scarecrow, “I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had …