Quote for Today: Lynne Truss
There is an old German fable about porcupines who need to huddle together for warmth, but are in danger of hurting each other with their spines. When they find the …
Picturing Woman: Paintings of Jules Breton
Many painters have taken their inspiration from the female form, but Jules Breton is unique. Trained in the European classical tradition, or “grand style” as he called it, he returned …
Quote for Today: Waylon Lewis
I would like to hold your hand as it holds this green leaf, yellowed, that fell early from its tree, this Autumn. And I would like to imagine that it …
Quote for Today: Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; …
Quote for Today: Victoria Aveyard
The thing with heat is, no matter how cold you are, no matter how much you need warmth, it always, eventually, becomes too much. ―Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword Public Domain …
Quote for Today: Frances Hodgson Burnett
“Listen to th’ wind wutherin’ round the house,” she said. “You could bare stand up on the moor if you was out on it tonight.” Mary did not know what …
Quote for Today: M.F.K. Fisher
It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without …
Quote for Today: Rob Sheffield
On the way we talked about the road sign Bridge Ices Before Road. I always wondered, If that’s a problem, why don’t they just build the bridge out of the …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
If there is a hard, high wall and an egg that breaks against it, no matter how right the wall or how wrong the egg, I will stand on the …
Look at the Beautiful Noise: Noise Photography and Jeff Ascough
We often feel we must choose between representation of the external and expression of the internal. Can’t we enjoy both? With the advent of the digital camera ideas about image …