Quote for Today: James Baldwin
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding …
Quote for Today: Tom Waits
I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they …
Quote for Today: Cheryl Strayed
Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not …
Quote for Today: Lloyd Jones
I had discovered that the plainest house can crown a fantasy or daydream. An open window can be tolerated. So can an open door. But I discovered the value …
Quote for Today: Gaston Bachelard
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have …
Quote for Today: Ian Fleming
– In the centre of Bond was a hurricane-room, the kind of citadel found in old-fashioned houses in the tropics. These rooms are small, strongly built cells in the heart …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #12: Hoop Dance Ceremony across the US and Canada
Today’s Globe-trotting Travel Series (Day 12) is a thrilling digital collaboration and conglomeration of Native American hoop dancers from across the US and Canada. They dance against the virus, they …
Quote for Today: Markus Zusak
We are wolves, which are wild dogs, and this is our place in the city. We are small and our house is small on our small urban street. We …
Quote for Today: Steven Pinker
Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to believe your own lies. You …
Quote for Today: Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; …