Quote for Today: Krista Tippett
Spiritual humility is not about getting small, not about debasing oneself, but about approaching everything and everyone else with a readiness to see goodness and to be surprised. This is …
Quote for Today: Stephen King
He more than half suspected that one of the things which had kept their marriage together when it seemed as if each year brought the news that two or three …
Quote for Today: Yann Martel
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to …
Quote for Today: Anne Lamott
And then, unbidden, seemingly out of nowhere, a thought or image arrives. Some will float into your head like goldfish, lovely, bright, orange, and weightless, and you follow them like …
Quote for Today: Danny Elfman
It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a certain point, the thing takes …
Quote for Today: Twyla Tharp
You don’t get lucky without preparation, and there’s no sense in being prepared if you’re not open to the possibility of a glorious accident. ―Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn …
This is Kansas? Thoughts on a Sunrise over Lake Scott
We classify everything by our own experience. How do we keep this natural self-centeredness from blinding us to new things? This summer my husband and I took our small RV …
Quote for Today: Tess Callahan
All your life you’re yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voilà, the rest of your life you’re green. ―Tess Callahan
Quote for Today: George Bernard Shaw
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements …
In Love with a Train: The Fateful Whimsy of Pica Do 7
Sometimes a journey, no matter how mundane, is the most interesting part of our day. How is art like travel? It is a wonderful quality of travel that it puts us in …