Quote for Today: Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Truman Capote
She was still hugging the cat. “Poor slob,” she said, tickling his head, “poor slob without a name. It’s a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven’t any right to give him one: he’ll...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Carla H. Krueger
© Maxwell Hamilton with CCLicense To Katie, it was as lonely and secret as any building could be; its size and grandeur meant less to her. She didn’t know or care when the place had been built or by...
View ArticleQuote for Today: John Burroughs
© Ben Njeri with CCLicense Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. ―John Burroughs, Studies in Nature and Literature
View ArticleQuote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
© Ghetu Daniel with CCLicense Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. –Henry David Thoreau, Allegash and East Branch
View ArticleQuote for Today: Jeanette Winterson
When I left home at sixteen I bought a small rug. It was my roll-up world. Whatever room, whatever temporary place I had, I unrolled the rug. It was a map of myself. Invisible to others, but held in...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Juhani Pallasmaa
Görlitz, Germany How much more mysterious and inviting is the street of an old town with its altering realms of darkness and light than are the brightly and evenly lit streets of today! The imagination...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Lorrie Moore
One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them. ―Lorrie Moore, Like Life Public Domain Image via Pixabay
View ArticleHalf Buried in the Sand: Remembering Kolmanskop
Humans react profoundly to images of places, natural or man-made. Why are we moved by locations we have never visited? From the mystical glow of the Aurora Borealis to the crumbling majesty of the...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Matt Haig
Humans, as a rule, don’t like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Summer Brennan
Our shoes pin us to the world, like Peter Pan to his shadow. More than simply facilitating our movement out-of-doors, they mediate between the wearer and the ground. Perhaps it is less the world they...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Brandon Sanderson
“What is a woman’s place in this modern world?” Jasnah Kholin’s words read. “I rebel against this question, though so many of my peers ask it. The inherent bias in the inquiry seems invisible to so...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Roger Ebert
I may appear to suffer from some sort of compulsive repetition syndrome, but these rituals are important to me. I have many places where I sit and think, “I have been here before, I am here now, and I...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Markus Zusak
We are wolves, which are wild dogs, and this is our place in the city. We are small and our house is small on our small urban street. We can see the city and the train line and it’s beautiful in its...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Kahlil Gibran
Imagination sees the complete reality–it is where past, present and future meet … Imagination is limited neither to the reality which is apparent–nor to one place. It lives everywhere. It is at a...
View ArticleQuote for Today: A.S. Byatt
This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the mid-point, to which everything ran, before, and from which everything will run. But now,...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Haruki Murakami
When I got to the waterfront, I parked the car beside a deserted warehouse, smoked a cigarette and put Bob Dylan on auto-repeat. I reclined the seat, kicked both legs up on the steering wheel,...
View ArticleFeatured Artist: Root Yarden
Synkroniciti is overjoyed to welcome back Israeli photographer, poet, dancer and performance artist Root Yarden. This time we feature a moving series of self-portraits by the sea called “Journey.” The...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Juhani Pallasmaa
How much more mysterious and inviting is the street of an old town with its altering realms of darkness and light than are the brightly and evenly lit streets of today! The imagination and daydreaming...
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