Quote for Today: T.S. Eliot
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. …
Quote for Today: Parker J. Palmer
Good teaching is an act of hospitality toward the young, and hospitality is always an act that benefits the host even more than the guest. The concept of hospitality arose …
Quote for Today: Susan Griffin
He says that woman speaks with nature. That she hears voices from under the earth. That wind blows in her ears and trees whisper to her. That the dead sing …
Quote for Today: James Baldwin
The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man, it has created a new white …
Quote for Today: William Faulkner
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks …
Quote for Today: Henri Nouwen
Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer …
Quote for Today: Lavinia Spalding
There’s something profoundly intense and intoxicating about friendship found en route. It’s the bond that arises from being thrust into uncomfortable circumstances, and the vulnerability of trusting others to navigate …
Quote for Today: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born. ―Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras
Quote for Today: Jack Kerouac
I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn’t know who I was …
The Depths of Nonverbal Conversation: Marina Abramović’s The Artist is Present
Art and conversation contain elements that evade language and communicate on a different level. How do these elements reach us? Marina Abramović is one of the world’s most famous performance artists. …