40 Days of Poetry: Day 4: The Waking by Theodore Roethke
In response to the Covid-19 outbreak around the globe, Synkroniciti will be posting a video of a poem every day for forty days. If you would like to participate, please …
Quote for Today: George Stevens
I was fascinated by all of it. The sounds of the theater and the audience, their rapture when a play took over and moved them and held them quietly… When …
Quote for Today: Christophe Galfard
Even today, more than eighty years after Oort’s bold guess, we still don’t have a clue what this dark matter is made of. We know it exists. We know where …
Quote for Today: L.R. Knost
The belief that children must be punished to learn better behaviors is illogical. Children learn to roll, crawl, walk, talk, read, and other complex behaviors without a need for punishment. …
Quote for Today: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes …
Quote for Today: Steve Maraboli
It is surprising to me that one of the great crimes of history has gone unnoticed; the abduction of god by religions. This slight-of-hand has been the cause of countless …
Quote for Today: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Walker-thinkers have found various ways to accommodate the gifts that their walking brings. Caught paperless on his walks in the Czech enclaves of Iowa, maestro Dvořák scribbles the string …
Saved by Camellias: Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog
We often hide our true selves from people around us. Perhaps our authenticity is actually what the world needs. To the upper class people who live in her elegant Parisian …
Quote for Today: Ethan Hawke
If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have …
Quote for Today: Norton Juster
“It has been a long trip,” said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; “but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn’t made so many …