Quote for Today: John O’Donohue
The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each thing creeps back into its own …
Quote for Today: Parker J. Palmer
Good teaching is an act of hospitality toward the young, and hospitality is always an act that benefits the host even more than the guest. The concept of hospitality arose …
Featured Artist: Peggy Schimmelman
Welcome our Featured Artist for the day, poet and writer Peggy Schimmelman. We are pleased to feature her poem “An Empty Tip Jar,” which reminds us of the unrecognized prejudices …
Quote for Today: Roald Dahl
Watch the robin especially because it always flies low, and you might see a nervous young Minpin perched on the feathers having its first flying lesson. And above …
Quote for Today: Eudora Welty
She (my mother) stood always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place. She did indeed tend to make the world look dangerous, and so it had …
Quote for Today: Judith Schalansky
Consulting maps can diminish the wanderlust that they awaken, as the act of looking at them can replace the act of travel. But looking at maps is much more than …
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: Richard Preston
When you get up into the crown of a redwood tree, you lose sight of the ground entirely. You also lose sight of the sky. You’re in a lost world. …
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: Chaim Potok
For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all the anguish this picture of pain will cause …