Quote for Today: Yoko Ono
You are water I’m water we’re all water in different containers that’s why it’s so easy to meet someday we’ll evaporate together. ―Yoko Ono, “Water Talk”, Half-A-Wind, 1967 Public Domain …
Quote for Today: Wallace J. Nichols
I wondered whether water is a mirror for our darker emotions as much as it is an engine for our happiness. Water quiets all the noise, all the distractions, and …
Quote for Today: A.E. Housman
Oh fair enough are sky and plain, But I know fairer far: Those are as beautiful again That in the water are; The pools and rivers wash so clean The …
Quote for Today: Patrick Ness
Ah, well, then you’ve never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it’s beyond sight, moving and blue and alive …
Quote for Today: Vera Nazarian
The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust. The …
Reinventing Ninfa: Il Giardino di Ninfa, Part 2
The 17th century saw the death of ancient Ninfa, once sacred to water nymphs. Has she returned to those roots? Earlier this week, we spoke of the tumultuous history of …
Beneath the Garden: Il Giardino di Ninfa, Part 1
Forty miles from Rome, the ancient city of Ninfa has been overtaken by a lush garden. What stories hide here? In the Latina province of the Lazio region of central …
Quote for Today: Jonathan Franzen
And so–for the first time, it seemed–Pip had looked at her mother’s hands. The skin on the back of them wasn’t pink and opaque like her own skin. It was …
Water and Light: This is how I get to you by Tuba Sozudogru
Our most important thoughts and feelings are those that are hard to put into words. Can art give them voices? Tuba Sozudogru presented her devastatingly beautiful and profound self portrait, …
Quote for Today: Stig Åvall Severinsen
It is impossible to express the experiences you have below the surface with words, when water gently caresses your face and body, the pulse decreases and your brain relaxes. …