Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
That (labyrinth)…became a world whose rules I lived by, and I understood the moral of mazes: sometimes you have to turn your back on your goal to get there, sometimes …
40 days of poetry: Day 27: Ruin and Beauty: Patricia Young
Day 27: Another visit to New York City, Patricia Young‘s Ruin and Beauty. We humans often think of ourselves as separate from nature, but underneath all of our noise and …
Quote for Today: Virginia Woolf
He sighed profoundly, and flung himself–there was a passion in his movements which deserves the word–on the earth at the foot of the oak tree. He loved, beneath all this …
Quote for Today: Muriel Barbery
In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch of perfection in the flow of human …
Quote for Today: Sadegh Hedayat
The sun, like a golden knife, was steadily paring away the edge of the shade beside the walls. The streets were enclosed between old, whitewashed walls. Everywhere were peace and …
Quote for Today: Jeanette LeBlanc
hold still. stay there. tease back the layers. you are in the space between your comfort zone and infinity. you want to hide. not be seen. not be open. not …
Celebrating 2015: A Meditation in Quotes
I thought I would try a new approach this year with my favorite quotes. This is always the most difficult list to compose, and, with the sheer number of quotes published …
Quote for Today: W.B. Yeats
We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a …
Lake Scott Sunrise, Set 1: Cloudy Dawn over Lake Scott
Early dawn. The sun is still struggling to get over the canyon rim, so the light is gentle, for now. The Moon, only a sliver, still …
Quote for Today: Lawrence Durrell
It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need a sixth sense for it. It is there if you …