Quote for Today: Jacob Riis
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at …
Quote for Today: Matsuo Bashō
The temple bell stops– but the sound keeps coming out of the flowers. —Matsuo Bashō, translated by Robert Bly, The Sea and the Honeycomb: A Book of Tiny Poems, 1971, Beacon …
Quote for Today: Francesca Lia Block
It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and …
Quote for Today: Donald Hall
Over the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we know what will happen, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy. It is alien, …
Quote for Today: Zhuangzi
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. —Zhuangzi
Quote for Today: Emily Brontë
I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the …
Quote for Today: Roger Zelazny
I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them. ― Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos
Quote for Today: C.S. Lewis
Sleeping on a dragon’s hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself. ― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”
Quote for Today: Rainer Maria Rilke
How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; …
Crossing the Country on Foot: Transformation One Step at a Time
Walking across the continent is not a new thing, but the extent of North American civilization has made it a different experience from what it was in the past. There …