Quote for Today: Italo Calvino
A child’s pleasure in listening to stories lies partly in waiting for things he expects to be repeated: situations, phrases, formulas. Just as in poems and songs the rhymes …
Featured Artist: Kelly DuMar
Please welcome poet, playwright and photographer Kelly DuMar to Synkroniciti. We are excited to feature three delicate photos paired with short poems: “Chicken of the Woods,” “Feather in Grass” and …
Quote for Today: Sasha Sagan
Nature is full of patterns and we humans love finding them, creating them, repeating them. This is the core of language, math, music, and even ritual, which is the repetition …
Quote for Today: Ken Liu
At this moment, in this place, the shifting action potential in my neurons cascade into certain arrangements, patterns, thoughts; they flow down my spine, branch into my arms, my fingers, …
Quote for Today: Oliver Sacks
To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns …
Quote for Today: Cormac McCarthy
Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in …
Quote for Today: Bruce Lee
Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns. ―Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do Public Domain Image via pexels.com
Quote for Today: David Byrne
I wouldn’t be surprised if poetry – poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs – is …
From Cave to Palace: Mocárabe in Architecture
Architecture is full of flowers, textures and patterns of nature. How do these recollections both soothe and impress the eye? We are accustomed to seeing stylized imitations of plant and …
Making Patterns in the Sky: Two Views of Air Traffic
It isn’t only birds that make interesting patterns in the sky. Take a look at two very different views of air traffic. The first is from GE Aviation and features …