Quote for Today: Tom Robbins
Very well. He’d lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the lips of the waves. Whatever else his long, …
Featured Artist: Dee Allen
Synkroniciti is honored to welcome poet and activist Dee Allen from Oakland, California, with two magnificent poems, Plastic Isle and Herbert Spencer Theory. Dee shows the world for what it is…troubled, …
Quote for Today: Sherman Alexie
“I don’t know if I ever told you,” my therapist said. “But I’m a birder. I love birds. And when they hit a window like that, or get hurt in …
Look and Listen #12: Maya Angelou, We Wear the Mask
In honor of Juneteenth, Maya Angelou’s poem, “We Wear the Mask.” She was a masterful reader, dancing on the edge of emotion. May we all learn how to listen and …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #35: Plante by Réka Bucsi, Budapest, Hungary via Vimeo’s Stories in Place
Day 35 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series takes us to Budapest, Hungary, to a small nursery called Plante. The movie is by Réka Bucsi, an animation film-maker, and is a …
40 days of poetry: Day 16: Labyrinth by Kenyatta Rogers
Day 16 of 40 days of poetry: Labyrinth by Kenyatta Rogers. Home, social class and circumstance–how do we escape these mazes we know so well? In response to the Covid-19 …
40 days of poetry: Day 15: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
Day 15: Elizabeth Bishop‘s One Art is about losing things. In response to the Covid-19 outbreak around the globe, Synkroniciti will be posting a video of a poem every day …
40 days of poetry: Music Swims Back to Me: Anne Sexton
40 days of poetry: Day 13. Today I’m reading Music Swims Back to Me, by Anne Sexton, about her experience being institutionalized for mental illness. Simultaneously clear and murky, it …
Quote for Today: Carl Sagan
Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to …
Quote for Today: Lord Byron
Thus sung, or would, or could, or should have sung, The modern Greek, in tolerable verse; If not like Orpheus quite, when Greece was young, Yet in these times he …