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Quote for Today: Hermann Hesse
© Miguel Viera with CCLicense A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the...
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Quote for Today: Pearl S. Buck
Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. –Pearl S. Buck, To My Daughters, with Love
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Quote for Today: Dan Chaon
© Kate Hartman with CCLicense I’ve been talking to myself a lot lately. I don’t know what that’s about, but my mother was the same way. She hated to make small talk with other people, but get her into...
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Quote for Today: Federico García Lorca
Canada Bereft, Canadian National Vimy MemorialImage © Labattblueboy with CCLicense “I’m hurt, hurt and humiliated beyond endurance, seeing the wheat ripening, the fountains never ceasing to give water,...
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Quote for Today: Jane Glazer
© Bob Schrader with CCLicense Final Disposition Others divided closets full of mother’s things. From the earth, I took her poppies. I wanted those fandango folds of red and black chiffon she doted on,...
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Quote for Today: Jean Arp
Public Domain Image via Pixabay Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb. –Jean Arp
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Quote for Today: William Golding
© Rrinsindika with CCLicense Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like a jewel in space. We have no excuse now for supposing her riches...
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Quote for Today: Mehmet Murat İldan
© Antara with CCLicense The Earth loves us through its gravity and this love is ideal: It neither sticks to us nor lets us fly into the unknown darkness! ―Mehmet Murat İldan
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Quote for Today: Herman Hesse
Through the Trees Natural Falls State Park, Oklahoma © Katherine McDaniel A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a...
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Quote for Today: Anna Quindlen
© Alexander Tundakov with CCLicense When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we’re as...
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Quote for Today: Jonathan Franzen
Stories © Ricky Norris with CCLicense And so–for the first time, it seemed–Pip had looked at her mother’s hands. The skin on the back of them wasn’t pink and opaque like her own skin. It was as if the...
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Beloved’s Journey, Chapter 5: Zerzura
Returning to her most recent human form, Sable shivers despite the heat rolling from the sands. The proud Ivory Gate of Zerzura, carved from the tusks of some unfathomably tremendous beast and marked...
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Beloved’s Journey, Chapter 7: In Mother’s Garden
I know this place. I sat upon that rock as a child and ruled as Fairy Empress of the Violets. Memories of hours spent in another world rush over me and I try to hold onto them, hoping to push past them...
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Quote for Today: Ruta Sepetys
“The shoes always tell the story,” said the shoe poet. “Not always,” I countered. “Yes, always. Your boots, they are expensive, well made. That tells me that you come from a wealthy family. But the...
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Quote for Today: Jalina Mhyana
The Wishing Bones A thousand grandmothers ago Pyrrha and Deucalion repopulated the world with rocks, bones of mother Earth, a generation of my ancestors strained from the mud of a drowned planet. But...
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Quote for Today: Virginia Woolf
When, however, one reads of a witch being dunked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track...
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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 been to her. A way had to be found around...
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Quote for Today: Martha Parravano
Consider a small child sitting on his mother’s lap while she reads him a picture book. The picture book opens to a width that effectively places the child at the center of a closed circle – that of...
View ArticleGlobe-trotting Travel Series #31: Ale Martore from San Salvador, El Salvador,...
Day 31 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series features the sweet sounds of Ale Martore, a musician from San Salvador, El Salvador. This is Mi casa, Mi País. She wrote this beautiful, touching song and...
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Quote for Today: Hermann Hesse
A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin,...
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