Quote for Today: Terence McKenna
Every culture that’s ever existed has operated under the illusion that it understood 95% of reality and that the other 5% would be delivered in the next 18 months, and …
Quote for Today: Saul Bellow
I wonder whether there will ever be enough tranquility under modern circumstances to allow our contemporary Wordsworth to recollect anything. I feel that art has something to do with the …
Look and Listen #17: Glass Artist Preston Singletary, Raven and The Box of Daylight from Craft in America
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 …
Quote for Today: Henry Beston
Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. Primitive folk, gathered at a cave mouth round …
40 days of poetry: Day 22: Beautification Campaign: Alex Lemon
Day 22: Enjoy this searingly funny satire of modern “sensibility” by Alex Lemon. This is Beautification Campaign. Who knows what might happen if people began to look past what advertising …
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 …
Quote for Today: Jacquetta Hawkes
There is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume that if you don’t have, at least, a …
Quote for Today: Chaim Potok
In our time… a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in ancient times. But those gods you …
Quote for Today: John Piper
He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not …
Quote for Today: Zhuangzi
I’ve heard my teacher say, where there are machines, there are bound to be machine worries; where there are machine worries, there are bound to be machine hearts. With a …