40 days of poetry: Day 20: To a Dancer by Katherine McDaniel
40 days of poetry: Day 20: To a Dancer by Katherine McDaniel. This is a poem that I wrote a few years ago. It seems all the more pertinent now …
Quote for Today: Christine Evangelou
Staying Power And the greatest beauty you could clothe your body with Are the gilded gems of staying power Like traces of molten gold fusing through your cells That which …
Quote for Today: W. Somerset Maugham
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men (sic) …
Picturing Wildness: The Beasts of Henri Rousseau
Artists are often told to work from experience, to relate what we know. There is more to knowledge and experience than physical reality, however. When it comes to inspiration, the …
Quote for Today: Therese of Lisieux
We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our love by all the little acts of tenderness …
Quote for Today: Salman Rushdie
What seems to me to be happening is that those people who were once colonized by the language are now rapidly remaking it, domesticating it, becoming more and more relaxed …
Quote for Today: Daisaku Ikeda
Health is not simply the absence of illness. Real health is the will to overcome every form of adversity and use even the worst of circumstances as a springboard for …
NBC Nightly News Broadcast: Houston Grand Opera Recovers
Here is a link to the NBC News spot that covers the opening of the Houston Grand Opera season in the brand new Resilience Theater in George R. Brown Convention …
Quote for Today: Sappho
Then you my goddess with your immortal lips smiling Would ask what now afflicts me, why again I am calling and what now I with my restive heart Desired: Whom …
Quote for Today: Henry Beston
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious …