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 …
Quote for Today: Franz Kafka
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the …
Quote for Today: Maurice Maeterlinck
There needs be but so little to encourage beauty in our soul; so little to awaken the slumbering angels; or perhaps is there no need of awakening — it is …
Quote for Today: Charlotte Eriksson
I want to learn how to speak to anyone at any time and make us both feel a little bit better, lighter, richer, with no commitments of ever meeting again. …
Quote for Today: Jeanette Winterson
“There was a man here, lashed himself to a spar as his ship went down, and for seven days and seven nights he was on the sea, and what …
Quote for Today: James Baldwin
For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind …
Quote for Today: William James
Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground. —William James Public Domain Image via Wikipedia
Separated from our Roots: Offshore by Kelly Ledsinger
There are emotions that are universal, or nearly so. The paradox is that they feel personal and difficult to share. Kelly Ledsinger shared this poem, entitled Offshore, at our last Open Mic, The Journey. …
Quote for Today: André Gide
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ―André Gide
Quote for Today: J.R.R. Tolkien
It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; …