When we listen to those stories, not only are we hearing tales of days gone by, we are also hearing the voices of all of those who lived before us. Those ancestors are not gone from our lives. They live in the stories, and they linger in our environments. They come to us in … Continue reading Quote for Today: Sherri Mitchell
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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 blocks them up. What a torture to talk to filled heads, that allow nothing from the outside to enter them! A good mind, in order … Continue reading Quote for Today: Joseph Joubert
Quote for Today: Emily Arden
As soon as the torch went out the atmosphere of the forest intensified. As her eyes slowly became accustomed to the darkness she started to notice the outlines of canopies above them where trees were silhouetted against the pale moonlight. The sounds around them became more noticeable; the shuffling of an animal through the undergrowth, … Continue reading Quote for Today: Emily Arden
Quote for Today: Doris Lessing
Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth. ―Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook Image: … Continue reading Quote for Today: Doris Lessing
Quote for Today: Wynton Marsalis
Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they track the trumpet and the singer comes in and they ship the tape somewhere. Well, none of the musicians have played together. You can’t play jazz music that way. In order … Continue reading Quote for Today: Wynton Marsalis
Quote for Today: Harold Monro
Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn: It listens, listens. Taller trees beyond Listen. The moon at the unruffled pond Stares. And you sing, you sing. That star-enchanted song falls through the air From lawn to lawn down terraces of sound, Darts in white arrows on the shadowed ground; And all the night … Continue reading Quote for Today: Harold Monro
Quote for Today: Thomas Merton
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm. ―Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island Image: SARAH BETH BRIGGS – pianist; 49 Queen’s Gate Terrace; London, UK; 29 September 2010; Credit: ©CLIVE BARDA/ArenaPAL with … Continue reading Quote for Today: Thomas Merton
