Quote for Today: Matt Haig
Humans, as a rule, don’t like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to …
Humans, as a rule, don’t like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to …
Humans react profoundly to images of places, natural or man-made. Why are we moved by locations we have never visited? From the mystical glow of the Aurora Borealis to the …
One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them. ―Lorrie Moore, Like Life Public Domain Image via Pixabay
When I left home at sixteen I bought a small rug. It was my roll-up world. Whatever room, whatever temporary place I had, I unrolled the rug. It was a …
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. —Henry David Thoreau, Allegash and East Branch
Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. ―John Burroughs, Studies in Nature and Literature
To Katie, it was as lonely and secret as any building could be; its size and grandeur meant less to her. She didn’t know or care when the place had …
She was still hugging the cat. “Poor slob,” she said, tickling his head, “poor slob without a name. It’s a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven’t …
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the …