Look and Listen #30: Aniyah Smith, Healing
Healing is a poem by Aniyah Smith, a New York based poet from Washington, DC. She was the 2018 DC Youth Poet Laureate, 2018 DC Youth Slam Grand Slam Team …
Quote for Today: Caitlín R. Kiernan
There’s always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there’s always a siren. It may be with us all …
Quote for Today: Elias Canetti
How unfair, he thought; I can close my mouth whenever I like, as tight as I like, and what has a mouth to say? It is there for taking …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #36: Animated Street Art from Lodz, Poland
Globe-trotting Travel Series #36 features street art murals in Lodz, Poland with some advice on the pandemic. Quarantines are lifting in many places, but we still need to be safe …
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: Martha Parravano
Consider a small child sitting on his mother’s lap while she reads him a picture book. The picture book opens to a width that effectively places the child at …
Quote for Today: Eudora Welty
She (my mother) stood always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place. She did indeed tend to make the world look dangerous, and so it had …
Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
There are map people whose joy is to lavish more attention on the sheets of colored paper than on the colored land rolling by. I have listened to accounts by …
Quote for Today: Elizabeth Gilbert
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, …