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Crossing the Country on Foot: Transformation One Step at a Time
Walking across the continent is not a new thing, but the extent of North American civilization has made it a different experience from what it was in the past. There was a time when there were no...
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The Depths of Nonverbal Conversation: Marina Abramović’s The Artist is Present
© adm with CCLicense Art and conversation contain elements that evade language and communicate on a different level. How do these elements reach us? Marina Abramović is one of the world’s most famous...
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Quote for Today: Colette
Sunset Tears© funkichkn with CCLicense It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one...
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Quote for Today: Sylvia Plath
© robert madeira with CCLicense I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the...
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Walking the Edge: Grief and the Performing Persona
Creativity gives us insight into the subconscious, but it doesn’t necessarily tell us how to deal with what we find. © fiddle oak with CCLicense If you’ve experienced raw tears while in front of a...
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Quote for Today: Alexander Lowen
© United Nations Photo with CCLicense We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in...
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Quote for Today: Rumer Godden
It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot ‘do'; they can only be done by; children who do not understand this often do wrong...
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Quote for Today: John Cusack
Public Domain Image via Pixabay Well, anything that’s interesting in a film, or in a character –all your passion, your sex, your anger, your rage, all that– comes from that part of you that you want to...
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Quote for Today: Lavinia Spalding
Trekking in Quebrada de las Conchas, Cafayate, Salta Province, Argentina© Jlla00 with CCLicense There’s something profoundly intense and intoxicating about friendship found en route. It’s the bond...
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The Tragedy of Roots: To a Dancer by Katherine McDaniel
Dance can circumvent words and create bonds across cultures. Could we allow the empathy it creates guide our daily lives? Sattriya Dancer, India© Subhrajit with CCLicense To a Dancer is a poem I wrote...
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Quote for Today: Deborah Smith
Dreaming Mirror Lake Wedington, Arkansas © Katherine McDaniel We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others. ―Deborah Smith, Alice at Heart
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Quote for Today: Steve Goodier
Collage Self Portrait by beatonthebrat with CCLicense I’m convinced that the world, more than ever, needs the music only you can make. And if it takes extra courage to keep playing in spite of your...
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Quote for Today: Henri Nouwen
© Caroline Paré with CCLicense Intimacy between people requires closeness as well as distance. It is like dancing. Sometimes we are very close, touching each other or holding each other; sometimes we...
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Quote for Today: Ta-Nehisi Coates
I found that people would tell me things, that the same softness that once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories. This was incredible. ―Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the...
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Quote for Today: William Stringfellow
You’re not listening! © Jesslee Cuizon with CCLicense Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance or...
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Quote for Today: Javier Marías
Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the...
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Here Comes the Rain Again: Dripping Diamonds by Ofelia Adame Williams
Synkroniciti is ecstatic to present an original work created for our Open Mic last month by Ofelia Adame Williams. While sitting in her car between her day job and her night/weekend job as a chorister...
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Quote for Today: Andrea Gibson
© Nevit Dilmen with CCLicense it’s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone’s playing checkers with their scars, saying checkmate whenever they get out without a broken heart. Just to be...
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Quote for Today: Tennessee Williams
Fragile Emotion © Don with CCLicense I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another...
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Quote for Today: Neil Gaiman
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny...
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