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: Eudora Welty
Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of …
Quote for Today: Charles de Lint
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused — hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical …
Quote for Today: Richard Adams
Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life …
Quote for Today: Audre Lorde
Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference – those of …
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: Jeanette Winterson
“There was a man here, lashed himself to a spar as his ship went down, and for seven days and seven nights he was on the sea, and what …
Reverent Strength: The Soulful Mbira of Hope Masike
Competition is distilled from survival instincts. Ironically, it may destroy our chance for survival. Can the arts help change this? The mbira, or thumb piano is a traditional musical instrument found …
Quote for Today: Toni Morrison
And in all those escapes he could not help being astonished by the beauty of this land that was not his. He hid in its breast, fingered its earth for …
Protecting Nature’s Heart: The Dream of the Green Lady by Katherine McDaniel
Our planet is a complex and beautiful incubator for life. How can we experience our connection to her more fully? I bought a set of acrylic paints by …