Quote for Today: Mark Helprin
Quite possibly there’s nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That’s when you learn that the tragedy of plants is …
Quote for Today: Roman Payne
A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander. …
Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that oneself, as an individual human being, is slowly being unraveled. …
Quote for Today: Jack London
He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. He was mastered …
Quote for Today: Christian Louboutin
A shoe is not only a design, but it’s a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you’re going to move is quite dictated by your …
Quote for Today: Michael Franti
You learn a lot when you’re barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different. —Michael Franti
Quote for Today: William Least-Heat Moon
I’ve read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn’t believe it, what with the sky white with starlight. I saw …
Thoughts from Zion Canyon: At The Temple of Sinawava on the Virgin River
At the end of the road in Zion National Park, there is a place called the Temple of Sinawava, a natural amphitheater nearly 3,000 feet deep. From this shaded, still …
Dolls from Around the World, part one: Dancing Figures
Ethnic dolls have much to do with memory and the interpretation of the past. They codify values, dress, gender roles, and appropriate occupations for the culture they represent– or at …