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: Timothy Keller
Imagine you are on a high cliff and lose your footing and begin to fall. Just beside you as you fall is a branch sticking out of the very edge …
Quote for Today: Charlotte Eriksson
I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls to be careful and ”the world is an …
Quote for Today: Margaret Atwood
There were places you didn’t want to walk, precautions you took that had to do with locks on windows and doors, drawing the curtains, leaving on lights. These things you …