Quote for Today: Susan Fletcher
“Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women, clever women and stupid women, honest women and …
Quote for Today: W.B. Yeats
Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. ―W.B. Yeats, The …
Quote for Today: Mircea Eliade
It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, becoming, death, and resurrection; the waters, plants, woman, fecundity, and immortality; the cosmic darkness, …
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: Rumi
The wound is the place where the Light enters you. —Rumi
Following the Twerge: Incubator by Katherine McDaniel
In the process of making art we can learn so much about ourselves. How does creativity help us understand life? Yesterday, I took a trip to the craft store with my …
Quote for Today: Rick Riordan
I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but …
Facing Cancer: Yo soy un Corazón by Katherine McDaniel
This poem explores a woman’s thoughts about her cancer diagnosis. Can creativity help us deal with life’s twists and turns? Several years ago, I participated in a program sponsored by Houston Grand …
Quote for Today: Mary Roach
With the rise of classical Greece, the soul debate evolved into the more familiar heart-versus-brain, the liver having been demoted to an accessory role. We are fortunate that this is …
Quote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to …