“Curiosity” Featured Artist Marjie Giffin
Synkroniciti is happy to welcome poet Marjie Giffin with A Clear Wriggler, a poem that speaks of the curiosity and wisdom that children exhibit from time to time. Do you …
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 …
Quote for Today: Ray Bradbury
As soon as things get difficult, I walk away. That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. If you try to approach …
Quote for Today: Dr. Seuss
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you …
Quote for Today: T. H. White
“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling …
Quote for Today: Frank Bidart
The gestures poems make are the same as the gestures of ritual injunction — curse; exorcism; prayer; underlying everything perhaps, the attempt to make someone or something live again. Both …
Quote for Today: Zsuzsanna Budapest
The purpose of ritual is to wake up the old mind in us, to put it to work. The old ones inside us, the collective unconscious, the many lives, the …
Quote for Today: Hermann Hesse
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. —Hermann …
Quote for Today: Pat Barker
Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem for the human …
Quote for Today: Steven R. Boyett
You ask me what it feels like to have wings. I can only tell you the feeling with words. And words have neither feelings nor wings. Words are leaky vessels …