Quote for Today: Katherine E. Standefer
“In life as in story,” writes Arthur Frank, “one event is expected to lead to another.” Our medical system has sold us a story of remedy, progress, technology, professionalism, and …
Quote for Today: Jeanette LeBlanc
Do not settle for living a version of your life designed by another. You are not meant to be gatekeeper or the holder of secrets and shame. You are here …
Quote for Today: Jim Butcher
“Oh,” the girl said, shaking her head. “Don’t be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them. They define themselves in relation to them. You …
Quote for Today: Laurie Perez
Bringing a novel to light – revealing the form and cadence, shadows and demeanor of a protagonist constructed from thin air – linking scenes and synchronicity across translucent time – …
Quote for Today: Italo Calvino
A child’s pleasure in listening to stories lies partly in waiting for things he expects to be repeated: situations, phrases, formulas. Just as in poems and songs the rhymes …
Synkroniciti Soirées
We are thrilled to present a new monthly online series of Synkroniciti Soirées, gatherings held via Zoom to share creative endeavors and nurture our sense of community. Each event will …
Quote for Today: Christina Baldwin
I have read the story of a tribe in southern Africa called the Babemba in which a person doing something wrong, something that destroys this delicate social net, brings all …
Quote for Today: Karen Armstrong
We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic, national or ideological tribe. We need myths …
Quote for Today: Rachel Naomi Remen
Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don’t do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling …
Quote for Today: Sara Sheridan
As a reader you recognise that feeling when you’re lost in a book? You know the one – when whatever’s going on around you seems less real than what you’re …