“Dreams” Featured Artist Annette Boushey Holland
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome back poet and writer Annette Boushey Holland, who recently won our “Recovery” essay contest, with “The Barn,” a poem about the restoration and repurposing of …
Quote for Today: Francis Weller
Imagine the feeling of relief that would flood our whole being if we knew that when we were in the grip of sorrow or illness, our village would respond to …
Quote for Today: Judith Lewis Herman
Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who …
Look and Listen #20: Iranian artist Morehshin Allahyari reconstructs art destroyed by ISIS from National Geographic
Moreshin Allahyari is an Iranian media artist and activist living in the United States since 2007. Her work is thought-provoking, linking modernity with ancient tradition and re-interpreting the past in …
Quote for Today: Toko-pa Turner
There is really only one way to restore a world that is dying and in disrepair: to make beauty where ugliness has set in. By beauty, I don’t mean a …
Quote for Today: Chinua Achebe
He knew that he had lost his place among the nine masked spirits who administered justice in the clan. He had lost the chance to lead his warlike clan against …
Quote for Today: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. …
Quote for Today: Sam Levenson
We leave you a tradition with a future. The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete. People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, …
Celebrating 2015: A Meditation in Quotes
I thought I would try a new approach this year with my favorite quotes. This is always the most difficult list to compose, and, with the sheer number of quotes published …
From Weapons to Stories: Repurposing the Park Avenue Armory
Can historic military landmarks find new purpose? Once crumbling, the Park Avenue Armory has reinvented itself by embracing the arts. The Seventh Regiment, or Park Avenue, Armory in New York City is impressive from …