Quote for Today: Tom Robbins
If little else, the brain is an educational toy. The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is that other people want to play with it, too. Sometime they’d rather …
Quote for Today: Lilliam Rivera
I thought home needed to be tall and luminous, a glowing building with a luxurious setting. Status. What I failed to understand is home is not where I place my …
Quote for Today: Thích Nhất Hạnh
Suppose two astronauts go to the moon. When they arrive, they have an accident and find out that they have only enough oxygen for two days. There is no hope …
Quote for Today: Rachel Naomi Remen
Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don’t do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling …
Quote for Today: Brandon Sanderson
There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person’s life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn’t take one step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You …
Quote for Today: Anna Deavere Smith
The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are the mask, and the perception, are reluctant to give over …
Look and Listen #21: Mariusz Kędzierski’s Hyperrealistic Drawings
Polish sketch artist Mariusz Kędzierski makes beautiful, hyperrealistic portraits and images filled with exquisite detail. This would be an accomplishment for anyone, but he has done this with no arms. …
Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
There are map people whose joy is to lavish more attention on the sheets of colored paper than on the colored land rolling by. I have listened to accounts by …
Quote for Today: Herbert Muschamp
A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are fashioned by those who …
Quote for Today: Gail Godwin
There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a …