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Quote for Today: Michael Chabon
CC Licensed Image by Stefano Costanzo on Fotopedia Yet entertainment–as I define it, pleasure and all–remains the only sure means we have of bridging, or at least of feeling as if we have bridged, the...
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Kisses from the Wild Side: Three Escape Machines
A large, ominous black cube stands before you, with a red button gleaming on its face. What happens if you walk up to the cube and push that button? Watch and see what these three people experience...
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The Outsider as a Mirror: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
© Jean-Michel Baud with CCLicense Outsiders inspire fear and enchantment. What does our reaction to those who are different say about us and our beliefs? Literature and film contain shining examples of...
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Mud and Consciousness: The Works of Alexandra Engelfriet
© Oven Fresh with CCLicense Have you ever felt a rush of joy when digging in the dirt or splashing through mud? There is something very primal about soil and our relationship to it. Alexandra...
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Quote for Today: Ken Robinson
She Spins IICC Licensed Image © ViaMoi (Stuart Williams) The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak;...
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Quote for Today: Justin Somper
© eschipul with CCLicense Well, if pirates are bad, And vampires are worse, Then I pray that as long as I be That though I sing of Vampirates I never one shall see. Yea, if pirates are danger And...
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Quote for Today: Rex Brandt
© Natasha Wheatland with CCLicense Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar...
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Voice, Language and Belonging: Renee Liang’s Chinglish
© Mike Baird with CCLicense Children of immigrants often feel as if they belong nowhere, that no one comprehends their unique voice. The language and customs of their parents homeland may be confining,...
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Quote for Today: Utah Phillips
© Fiona Bearclaw with CCLicense I didn’t know what exhausted me emotionally until that moment, and I realized that the experience of being a soldier, with unlimited license for excess, excessive...
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Quote for Today: Ursula K. LeGuin
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. –Ursula K. LeGuin Sarychev Volcano, Matua Island in the Kuril Islands,...
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Quote for Today: Sir Edmund Hillary
© John Hill with CCLicense Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb...
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Quote for Today: Edward Norton
I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass. –Edward Norton
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Quote for Today: G.K. Chesterton
© Persephone Pomegranate with CCLicense Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. –G.K. Chesterton
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Drawing from the Subconscious: Metamorphic Fairies from Synkroniciti
We often limit our creativity to the fields in which we are trained. Can exploring new territory enrich our experience? © Thomas Eagle with CCLicense Last fall I was attending a concert, a lovely...
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Quote for Today: Friedrich Nietzsche
A man has no ears for that which he cannot access through experience. To take an extreme case, suppose a book contains only incidents which lie outside the range of general or even rare...
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Quote for Today: Frank Herbert
© airguy1988 with CCLicense I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And...
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Quote for Today: Kate Jacobs
© Steven Depolo with CCLicense Seeing a pattern doesn’t mean you know how to pull it all together. Take baby steps: don’t focus on the folks whose skills are far beyond your own. When you’re new to...
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Quote for Today: Idries Shah
© Bryancalabro with CCLicense Many things which are called ‘secrets’ are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them. ―Idries Shah
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Quote for Today: Maya Angelou
© dhendrix73 with CCLicense “Sister, there are people who went to sleep all over the world last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. Sister, those who expected to...
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Quote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
© Donareiskoffer with CCLicense I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I...
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