Quote for Today: Robert MacFarlane
Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful solace in them. At bottom, mountains, …
Featured Artist: Sara Collie
Synkroniciti is eager to welcome back Sara Collie (2:3, 2:4 and 3:1) with an entrancing essay that speaks of her experience hiking across the Pyrenees Mountains. “How to Pitch a …
Quote for Today: Ursula K. LeGuin
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. —Ursula K. LeGuin Image by WikiImages from Pixabay
Quote for Today: Eudora Welty
That summer lying in the long grass with my head propped up against the back of a saddle, with the zenith above me and the drop of distance below, I …
Quote for Today: Mary Oliver
The Old Poets Of China Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I …
Flights of Fancy: Bandaloop Dances in Air
Rock climbers have a special relationship with surfaces they climb. What happens when this elevated awareness is fused with dance? Have you ever dreamt of flying, of twisting and turning through the …
Quote for Today: George Mallory
Is this the summit, crowning the day? How cool and quiet! We’re not exultant; but delighted, joyful; soberly astonished. . . Have we vanquished an enemy? None but ourselves. Have …
Quote for Today: Bree Loewen
During my three seasons at Mount Rainier I learned a lot about mountain climbing and rescues, about politics and camaraderie in the mountains, and about what being a woman climber …
Quote for Today: Emily Danforth
Then, one on either side, they walked me to the shore, which was black and endless. But there was a fire waiting. And there was a little meal laid out …
Quote for Today: Marty Rubin
We are the mountains we must cross. ―Marty Rubin