Quote for Today: Wendell Berry
The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It …
Look and Listen #29: William Kleinelder and the Healing Power of Art
This is the story of William Kleinelder, who was wounded by an IED while driving a Humvee on a medical mission in Iraq. Art is a part of recovery for …
Quote for Today: Gordon Hempton
Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything . . . It is the presence of time, undisturbed. It can be felt within the chest. …
Featured Artist: Radoslava Hrabovská
Meet Radoslava (Radka) Hrabovská, our first featured artist in the June 1st issue. A multi-media artist from Slovakia, Radka possesses a marvelous sense of texture and a talent for deep …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #23: Documentary Photographer Pat Kane, Yellowknife, Northwest Territory, Canada via The Atlantic
Day 23 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series takes us into the Arctic Circle, to Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territory of Canada. Resident and documentary filmmaker Pat Kane found …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #20: Street Artists, Mathare, Nairobi, Kenya via The Guardian
Day 20 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series takes us into the Mathare camp of Nairobi, Kenya, where street art seeks to teach a population living in extreme poverty and close …
Quote for Today: Brené Brown
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #5: Violinist Lena Yokoyama from Cremona, Italy
The 5th day of the Globe-trotting Travel Series takes us to a hospital rooftop in Cremona, Italy, where violinist Lena Yokoyama plays a passionate performance of Gabriel’s Oboe from The …
Quote for Today: Alexander McCall Smith
Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, …
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 …