Quote for Today: Barbara Hurd
Okefenokee SwampPublic Domain Image via Pixabay In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Lena Dunham
It Was You© Katherine McDaniel, 2015 You are mad to be spending the summer in the country, where the days are too quiet and you have so much time to think. In the city you live on Broadway, where the...
View ArticleQuote for Today: François Truffaut
I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the...
View ArticleQuote 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 connects you to your own thoughts....
View ArticleRevealing the Internal Voice: Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man
If our internal dialogues were revealed, what would the world learn? None of us could bear that kind of scrutiny. We are each far more wonderful and far more horrible than anyone could imagine....
View ArticleQuote for Today: Nick Hornby
All that night he thought like boomerangs fly: an idea would shoot way off into the distance, all the way to a caravan in Hollywood and, for a moment, when he had got as far away from school and...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the water, the leafy patterns of the shadows across the path. And then myself,...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Edith Södergran
In far-off lands stand the great stones on which my thoughts rest. It was a foreigner who wrote the strange words on the hard board that is called my soul. Days and nights I lie and think about things...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Dorothea Dix
I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign clime. Hearts met hearts, minds joined with...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Ken Liu
At this moment, in this place, the shifting action potential in my neurons cascade into certain arrangements, patterns, thoughts; they flow down my spine, branch into my arms, my fingers, until...
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