Quote for Today: Paul Bowles
There are mornings when, from the first ray of light seized upon by the eye, and the first simple sounds that get inside the head, the heart is convinced …
There are mornings when, from the first ray of light seized upon by the eye, and the first simple sounds that get inside the head, the heart is convinced …
Please welcome poet Kevin Guess. Kevin is best known as a musician and teacher here in Houston, and it is Synkroniciti’s great pleasure to publish two poems from Mission: “The …
I sincerely believe we are created by a Creator to be creative. This is part of His image we bear, this bringing forth of beauty, life, newness…It looks like …
As soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it’s like a moment where, …
I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness. …
Our new issue will be finding its way into inboxes this afternoon! It is a gorgeous and thought-provoking issue exploring many facets of the idea of home, dedicated to the …
I know this world is far from perfect.I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon.I know our wounds are deep as the Atlantic.But every ocean has …
Some tribal cultures believe that the act of creation takes place through music. They literally sing their homes, their villages and their valleys into existence. They keep them strong and …
Here’s how I learned to improvise: I played some music in the studio and I started to move. It sounds obvious, but I wonder how many people, whatever their medium, …
Writer Miroslav Volf explains this more poetically. We experience time, he says, the way we hear a beautiful note from a cello. It may sound like a single pitch, but …