The Camellia Tree of Matsue At Matsue, There was a Camellia Tree of great beauty Whose blossoms were white as honey wax Splashed and streaked with the pink of fair coral. At night, When the moon rose in the sky, The Camellia Tree would leave its place By the gateway, And wander up and down … Continue reading Quote for Today: Amy Lowell
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Quote for Today: Paulette Jiles
Outside, as she passed the kitchen window, she watched her breath appear before her in the lamplight and then it died away in moist clouds. This was the smoke of her internal fire and her soul. Every breath was a letter to the world. These she mailed into the cold air leaning back with pursed … Continue reading Quote for Today: Paulette Jiles
Quote for Today: Rick Bass
How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. ―Rick Bass, Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had Public Domain Image via PxHere
Quote for Today: Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you feel you have to open a particular door, open it, otherwise all your life that door will haunt your mind! ―Mehmet Murat Ildan Public Domain Image via Pixnio
Quote for Today: Walter Brueggemann
The alternative to the free market consumer culture is a set of covenants that supports neighborly disciplines, rather than market disciplines, as a producer of culture. These non-market disciplines have to do with the common good and abundance as opposed to self-interest and scarcity. This neighborly culture is held together by its depth of relatedness, … Continue reading Quote for Today: Walter Brueggemann
Quote for Today: Wendell Berry
Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for its origin. It uses neither tool nor material that it does not respect and that it does not love. It honors nature as a great mystery and power, as an indispensable teacher, and as the inescapable judge of all … Continue reading Quote for Today: Wendell Berry
Quote for Today: Deb Caletti
Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn't, family that wasn't family but was, halves becoming whole, wholes splitting into two; it was possible to lack whole, honest love and connection from … Continue reading Quote for Today: Deb Caletti
