Featured Artist: Judith McGinn
Synkroniciti is honored to welcome writer Judith McGinn from Skaneateles, NY, with a fascinating short story, “A Sea Change,” about a mother who has an unusual connection with her teenage …
Featured Artist: Beth Copeland
Synkroniciti is honored to welcome poet Beth Copeland with two musings on mountains and what they can mean to our human journey. “My Daughter Paints a Mountain” tells how a …
Quote for Today: Ayelet Waldman
I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even—no, especially—when the truth is difficult. It’s always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is …
Quote for Today: Hermann Hesse
A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #31: Ale Martore from San Salvador, El Salvador, Mi casa, Mi país
Day 31 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series features the sweet sounds of Ale Martore, a musician from San Salvador, El Salvador. This is Mi casa, Mi País. She wrote this …
Quote for Today: Martha Parravano
Consider a small child sitting on his mother’s lap while she reads him a picture book. The picture book opens to a width that effectively places the child at …
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 …
Quote for Today: Virginia Woolf
When, however, one reads of a witch being dunked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man …
Quote for Today: Jalina Mhyana
The Wishing Bones A thousand grandmothers ago Pyrrha and Deucalion repopulated the world with rocks, bones of mother Earth, a generation of my ancestors strained from the mud of …
Quote for Today: Ruta Sepetys
“The shoes always tell the story,” said the shoe poet. “Not always,” I countered. “Yes, always. Your boots, they are expensive, well made. That tells me that you come from …