40 days of poetry: Day 23: Kindness: Naomi Shihab Nye
The poem for Day 23 is Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye. May we all use our trials to learn how to be kind rather than getting bitter and mean.
40 days of poetry: Day 16: Labyrinth by Kenyatta Rogers
Day 16 of 40 days of poetry: Labyrinth by Kenyatta Rogers. Home, social class and circumstance–how do we escape these mazes we know so well? In response to the Covid-19 …
40 days of poetry: Day 15: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
Day 15: Elizabeth Bishop‘s One Art is about losing things. In response to the Covid-19 outbreak around the globe, Synkroniciti will be posting a video of a poem every day …
Quote for Today: James Jones
And the only way he had ever found, the only code, the only language by which he could speak and be heard by other men, could communicate himself, was with …
Quote for Today: Hayao Miyazaki
In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way. As humans grew stronger, I think …
Quote for Today: Akshay Vasu
She stretched her hands towards the sky. To grab all the stars, to hold the moon, to take away everything that the sky had. So that the sky could finally …
Quote for Today: Naomi Jackson
Sixty-three years on this earth has taught Hyacinth that it wasn’t so much the mistakes that people made but how flexible they were in the aftermath that made all the …
Quote for Today: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, …
Quote for Today: Chinua Achebe
He knew that he had lost his place among the nine masked spirits who administered justice in the clan. He had lost the chance to lead his warlike clan against …
Quote for Today: Christina Rasmussen
I have lived in the shadow of loss—the kind of loss that can paralyze you forever. I have grieved like a professional mourner—in every waking moment, draining every ounce of …