Quote for Today: Robert Francis
I follow Plato only with my mind Pure beauty strikes me as a little thin A little cold, however beautiful. I am in love with …
Quote for Today: Laurie Perez
Feel compassion for your own heart that was broken open by grief or confusion. Then tune in to the other level of that experience. Some part of you was heroic …
Quote for Today: Madeleine George
Anyway, if you need your heroes to be perfect, you won’t have very many. Even Superman had his Kryptonite. I’d rather have my heroes be more like me: trying to …
Quote for Today: Jon Kabat-Zinn
We resonate with one another’s sorrows because we are interconnected. Being whole and simultaneously part of a larger whole, we can change the world simply by changing ourselves. If I …
Look and Listen #14: Cbabi Bayoc in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
In celebration of Father’s Day, meet artist Cbabi Bayoc of St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Art has the power to amplify the things which are important to the artist and to …
Quote for Today: Brené Brown
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving …
Quote for Today: Eudora Welty
She (my mother) stood always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place. She did indeed tend to make the world look dangerous, and so it had …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #9: My Boyfriend Died of Covid-19, Wuhan, China via The Atlantic
Day 9 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series is a heart-rending story from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak, which occurred during the weeks surrounding Chinese New Year. A young …
Quote for Today: Brian Andreas
You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn’t that far to go. Or the time …
40 days of poetry: Day 17: Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Our poem today is one of my favorite classics, Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold. It’s about bonding together in love to find strength in a world that, beautiful and exciting …