“Curiosity” Featured Artist Robert L. Dean, Jr.
Please join Synkroniciti in welcoming poet Robert L. Dean, Jr. We were so glad to meet him at our February Zoom gathering and pleased to have him submit poetry and …
Featured Artist: Vasilios Papaioannu
Please join Synkroniciti in welcoming back filmmaker Vasilios Papaioannu, with “Parenthesis,” a fascinating examination of memory, thought and how our brains capture and fragment experience. We featured his colorful and …
Quote for Today: W. Somerset Maugham
I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
The whiff of ocean on the southern breeze and the smell of burning asphalt brought back memories of summers past. It had seemed as though those sweet dreams of summer …
Quote for Today: Steven Millhauser
After all, we were young. We were fourteen and fifteen, scornful of childhood, remote from the world of stern and ludicrous adults. We were bored, we were restless, we longed …
Quote for Today: Natalie Babbitt
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in …
Quote for Today: Jess Kidd
My sister said that when the tide was out you could walk all the way to America; the waves pulled back that far. So far that the starfish forgot …
Quote for Today: Khang Kijarro Nguyen
The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, the walls surrounding a medieval castle: obsolete walls evoke nostalgia. Make your walls obsolete. —Khang Kijarro Nguyen Image: Naga, Sudan © Christopher …
Where is the Refuge? The Melody of our Alienation
The power of the spoken word and the captured image can be woven together in a way that evades description. I thought I had finished synkroniciti’s short cycle on Yemen, when …
Quote for Today: Fernando Pessoa
The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd–The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the …