Quote for Today: Madeline Miller
Little by little I began to listen better: to the sap moving in the plants, to the blood in my veins. I learned to understand my own intention, to prune …
Little by little I began to listen better: to the sap moving in the plants, to the blood in my veins. I learned to understand my own intention, to prune …
Please welcome poet Kevin Guess. Kevin is best known as a musician and teacher here in Houston, and it is Synkroniciti’s great pleasure to publish two poems from Mission: “The …
“Listen to th’ wind wutherin’ round the house,” she said. “You could bare stand up on the moor if you was out on it tonight.” Mary did not know what …
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, …
Preston Singletary is a Tlingit artist working in glass. The Tlingit people are famous for their art and storytelling and the incredible iconographic tradition that they have built is unique …
There is a fine line between admiring someone and exploiting them. Leah Anderson explores how it feels to be singled out. “You Ask Me What I Am So You May …
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun…. there are millions …
When I am gripped with despair, when I think I might stop, I speak to my dead. Tell them a story. What am I doing with this life? They hold …
The idea of attention or contemplation, of looking carefully at something and holding it before the mind, may be conveyed early on in childhood. ‘Look, listen, isn’t that nice?’ Also, …
We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure …