Quote for Today: Bell Hooks
Fear is the primary force upholding structures of domination. It promotes the desire for separation, the desire not to be known. When we are taught that safety lies always with …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #31: Ale Martore from San Salvador, El Salvador, Mi casa, Mi país
Day 31 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series features the sweet sounds of Ale Martore, a musician from San Salvador, El Salvador. This is Mi casa, Mi País. She wrote this …
Quote for Today: Ruta Sepetys
“The shoes always tell the story,” said the shoe poet. “Not always,” I countered. “Yes, always. Your boots, they are expensive, well made. That tells me that you come from …
Quote for Today: Fernando Pessoa
I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands, and I said nothing about the landscapes which …
Quote for Today: Edward Said
No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points, which if followed into actual experience for only a …
Quote for Today: Edward Abbey
There’s another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on …
Quote for Today: Kelseyleigh Reber
In that moment, the moon and the sun shared the sky. For all of eternity, the moon and sun have chased each other around the world. Long into the future, …
Quote for Today: Rumi
Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours. ―Rumi Public Domain Image via freestockphotos
Quote for Today: R.N. Prasher
When water is being filled in a pot, the sound we hear is a function of the pot, not of the water. Same water makes different sounds in different …
Quote for Today: Don DeLillo
Objects were memory inert. Desk, the bed, et cetera. Objects would survive the one who died first and remind the other of how easily halved a life can become. Death, …