Quote for Today: Patrick Jennings
Through the window, I saw the beautiful world outside: the sky, the sun, the cacti, the rocks, and the dirt. How I longed to return to it! I licked at …
Through the window, I saw the beautiful world outside: the sky, the sun, the cacti, the rocks, and the dirt. How I longed to return to it! I licked at …
“One never reaches home,” she said. “But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time.” ―Hermann Hesse, Demian …
We are born into a world that is much bigger than ourselves, one that is both enormously frightening and enormously beautiful. Although we walk the path of our individual lives …
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 …
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. —Hermann …
The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …