Quote for Today: Ali Smith
Fear is one of my belongings. Fear will always be a part of any belonging, anywhere, that I ever go, for the rest of my life. I fought hard, to …
Quote for Today: William Kittredge
How do you go to your own house when something has gone bad on the inside, when it doesn’t seem like your place to live anymore, when you almost …
Quote for Today: Susan Griffin
Lately I have come to believe that an as yet undiscovered human need and even a property of matter is the desire for revelation. The truth within us has a …
Quote for Today: Akshay Vasu
We took the path that led others nowhere and only we saw the light at the end of the tunnel. They warned us about the monsters we would encounter, the …
40 days of poetry: Day 17: Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Our poem today is one of my favorite classics, Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold. It’s about bonding together in love to find strength in a world that, beautiful and exciting …
Quote for Today: Brené Brown
The reckoning is how we walk into our story; the rumble is where we own it. The goal of the rumble is to get honest about the stories we’re making …
Quote for Today: Daisaku Ikeda
Health is not simply the absence of illness. Real health is the will to overcome every form of adversity and use even the worst of circumstances as a springboard for …
Quote for Today: Michael Shea
The wind that night made him feel his chronic longing. The wind, trying to stampede the trees, was roaring for a grand, universal departure to another solar system, a …
Quote for Today: George Mallory
Is this the summit, crowning the day? How cool and quiet! We’re not exultant; but delighted, joyful; soberly astonished. . . Have we vanquished an enemy? None but ourselves. Have …
Quote for Today: Dave Eggers
She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers …