This is Kansas? Thoughts on a Sunrise over Lake Scott
We classify everything by our own experience. How do we keep this natural self-centeredness from blinding us to new things? This summer my husband and I took our small RV …
Quote for Today: Lena Dunham
You are mad to be spending the summer in the country, where the days are too quiet and you have so much time to think. In the city you live …
Quote for Today: Frank McCourt
Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You’ll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I’m still …
Quote for Today: Lawrence Durrell
It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need a sixth sense for it. It is there if you …
Quote for Today: Albert Camus
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to …
Quote for Today: Truman Capote
“When I was a girl,” she had once told a friend, “I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things, and …
Quote for Today: Gary Oldman
I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and pencils, you wouldn’t hear from …
Quote for Today: A. Lee Martinez
Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn’t certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and …