Quote for Today: Madeline Miller
Little by little I began to listen better: to the sap moving in the plants, to the blood in my veins. I learned to understand my own intention, to prune …
Featured Artist: David Ellis of Auroras & Blossoms
Synkroniciti is thrilled to welcome back poet David Ellis from Auroras & Blossoms with a magical poem, “When Night is Bare,” a Kindku based on Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “To a …
Quote for Today: Stephen Sondheim
If I cannot fly… Let me sing. —Stephen Sondheim, “Green Finch and Linnet Bird” from Sweeney Todd Image: Bird in cage/ Fisheye © Aleera with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Kevin Brockmeier
A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a message outside …
Quote for Today: Regina Spektor
As soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it’s like a moment where, …
Quote for Today: Tom Robbins
Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they’re born with a song of their own, an innate riff that happens to be one …
Quote for Today: Frederick Douglass
I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness. …
Quote for Today: Rainer Maria Rilke
All that has never yet been spoken I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. I want to free what waits within me so that what no one …
Quote for Today: Margaret Atwood
We ate the birds. We ate them. We wanted their songs to flow up through our throats and burst out of our mouths, and so we ate them. We wanted …
Quote for Today: Maya Angelou
A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares …