Quote for Today: SARK
When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. Sometimes people wonder or worry whether people will like or approve of their …
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 31: from When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams
Day 31: Today’s poem is from Terry Tempest William‘s When Women Were Birds and was suggested by Janice Van Derbur. We forget how wonderful the natural world is and how …
Quote for Today: Charlotte Brontë
She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that disaster could not shake; love that, in calamity, …
Quote for Today: John Muir
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out …
Quote for Today: Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; …
Quote for Today: V.S. Carnes
Therefore, she hummed the provincial lullaby she had learned from the officers’ children in the English Quarter of Jerusalem, and watched in fascination while the savage radical’s eyes misted over …
Quote for Today: Wendell Berry
It was no thought or word that called culture into being, but a tool or a weapon. After the stone axe we needed song and story to remember innocence, to …
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 suns rays and dares to …
Quote for Today: Kamand Kojouri
They took my books because my message was love. They took my pen because my words were love. Then they took my voice because my song was love. Soon they’ll …