Quote for Today: Dag Hammarskjöld
In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes …
Quote for Today: Lao Tzu
Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with …
Quote for Today: L.M. Montgomery
“After all,” Anne had said to Marilla once, “I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just …
40 days of poetry: Day 21: Shaking the Grass: Janice N. Harrington
Day 21: Our poem is Shaking the Grass by Janice N. Harrington. It relates a simple experience of laying in the grass. Experiences that we take for granted, that don’t …
Quote for Today: Bill Bryson
Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of …
Quote for Today: Federico Fellini
When I felt I was dying, these past few days, things were no longer anthropomorphic. The telephone, which looks like a sort of upturned black snake, was merely a telephone. …
Quote for Today: Alexander Dumas-fils
Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or …
Discovering Moon House: Dag and Zook and The Fear of Falling
Thanksgiving Day 2018 was a memorable one. We spent the week in Blanding, UT. Unlike Moab to the north with its trendy, sporty persona, which I don’t much love, Blanding …
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: Nicola Yoon
And what about the lovers who spend hours staring into each other’s eyes? Is it a display of trust? “I will let you in close and trust you not to …