Quote for Today: Ashim Shanker
It is amazing how dispiriting it can be to enter a learning environment and to be made immediately to suppress your own exploratory inclinations. So many learning environments in the …
Quote for Today: Alan Watts
We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that “I myself” is a …
Look and Listen #36: Joseph Pla-Narbona via Nowness
If you have ever struggled with depression, the whimsical and deep art of Josep Pla-Narbona and his story may be encouraging to you. He finds that drawing helps him to …
Quote for Today: Catherynne M. Valente
A story is a map of the world. A gloriously colored and wonderful map, the sort one often sees framed and hanging on the wall in a study full …
Quote for Today: James Hollis
We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small …
Quote for Today: Lisel Mueller
A map of the world. Not the one in the atlas, but the one in our heads, the one we keep coloring in. With the blue thread of the river …
Quote for Today: Martha Graham
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this …
Quote for Today: Walter Murch
Most of us are searching–consciously or unconsciously–for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen to become aware–like Stravinsky–of a volcano …
Quote for Today: Katja Michael
No, you don’t shoot things. You capture them. Photography means painting with light. And that’s what you do. You paint a picture only by adding light to the things you …
Quote for Today: Billy Collins
Introduction to Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say …