Poetry Contest Winner: L.A. Neighbors by Charles Elliott
Synkroniciti is honored to award the prize for our “home” poetry contest to Charles Elliott’s striking “L.A. Neighbors.” In modern city life, how often do we make assumptions and draw …
From My Garden: Twenty Camellias in Haiku
Last spring I planted camellias in our front flowerbeds, not fully appreciating what a blessing I was giving myself. My husband and I worked the soil, adding amendments to create …
Quote for Today: Michael Pollan
In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens — a ruin, sometimes even a dead tree …
Quote for Today: Jonathan Franzen
And so–for the first time, it seemed–Pip had looked at her mother’s hands. The skin on the back of them wasn’t pink and opaque like her own skin. It was …
Quote for Today: Aron Ralston
I limited myself to one shout a day. But I didn’t like the sound of my voice. It sounded panicked, it sounded scared. And I knew from experience you can’t …