Quote for Today: Flora Rheta Schreiber
“Life has so much pain that one needs a catharsis. I don’t mean escape. You don’t escape in books. On the contrary, they help you to realize yourself more fully. …
“Life has so much pain that one needs a catharsis. I don’t mean escape. You don’t escape in books. On the contrary, they help you to realize yourself more fully. …
I wish this for you: to find the people you belong with, the ones who will see your pain, companion you, hold you close, even as the heavy lifting of …
And then you leave the memories behind. When you look at the pictures It seems like it was always fun. But you know that in that photo everyone was actually …
To be rejected by someone doesn’t mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn’t mean that nobody will ever …
Synkroniciti is excited to welcome poet Scott Ferry, with two wonderfully gritty cadralor poems: Black Friday and a request. The first chips away at the nature of existence, reality and …
Life cracks us into unrecognizable shards of former incarnations. Slivers of our hurt and our pain and our shame nestles next to fragments of our truth, our divinity, our fierce …
We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if were found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, …
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with …
I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even—no, especially—when the truth is difficult. It’s always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is …
There are stories that are true, in which each individual’s tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have heard it before, and we …