Quote for Today: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, …
Quote for Today: Vincent van Gogh
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. -– Vincent van Gogh Image by Myriam …
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 …
40 days of poetry: Day 17: Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Our poem today is one of my favorite classics, Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold. It’s about bonding together in love to find strength in a world that, beautiful and exciting …
Quote for Today: Liz Braswell
The nautilus shell was exquisite, brown and white and perfectly striped. The math that lay like a dazzling creation spell over all who lived in the sea showed clearly …
Quote for Today: Pat Conroy
The sea rose invisibly beneath us and the moon shone smooth and bright. A glossy flute of light, like velvet down a bridal aisle, lit the marlin scales and …
Quote for Today: Colleen Hoover
Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in like waves, trickling in and out with the tide. Some waves are much bigger …
Quote for Today: Jalina Mhyana
The Wishing Bones A thousand grandmothers ago Pyrrha and Deucalion repopulated the world with rocks, bones of mother Earth, a generation of my ancestors strained from the mud of …
Quote for Today: Thomas Mann
There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena …
Quote for Today: Richard Preston
Redwoods flourish in fog, but they don’t like salt air. They tend to appear in valleys that are just out of sight of the sea. In their relationship with the …