Black & White

"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know." ~ Lao Tsu

Inside a composer's mind...

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." ~ Victor Hugo

Stories from the Bowl!

... between words ...

Because Democracy Matters...

"A letter always seemed to me like immortality, because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend." ~ Emily Dickinson

A place to explore the way the short story works.

The Tao Te Ching, written around 400 BC by Lao Tzu. Translated by James Legge.

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

"The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between." ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Life Under Water...

An artist's life in an interstellar world...

The reader is my notebook

Extraordinary Stories in Art & Literature...

I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone, which would not have happened if I had not come.” ― Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

"I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." ~ Blaise Pascal, 1657

“What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.” ~ Kobayashi Issa

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storms to pass ... It’s about learning how to dance in the rain." ~ Vivian Greene

"Do Sculptures Think?"

"Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self." — W.H. Auden

Life in Medicine and Science... ― “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” ― Marie Curie

History in Pictures

"Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful." — John Maeda

Science Photography & Art

Look at the lilies in the field, how they grow... they do not toil or spin...

Homer's works, written around 8th century BCE, are regarded as one of the most significant works of the Western canon.

“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.” ~ Herman Melville

Psychedelic Literature - "There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception." ~ Aldous Huxley

Life as an artist...

Women are amazing creatures...

Art, Poetry, Music & More... "One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Visual Arts...

Victor Hugo's historical novel, first published in 1862 and considered one of the greatest in the 19th century. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood.

Plato's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, authored around 375 BC.

"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading." ~ Isaac Asimov

Art is more important than ever in our tumultuous world. It can touch us in very powerful ways. Nature is art and artist - so is everyone of us...

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. ~ Charles Darwin

"There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star: Consume me..." ~ Virginia Woolf

Let's Save Our Planet And Make It A Better Place For All... We Can Do It!

"The avant-garde is attitude, principle, set of activities, set of performances, articulatory forms, positive objects and processes." — Vladan Kuzmanovic

Currently Featured: The Essays of Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne published in 1580 - Translated by Charles Cotton - Edited by William Carew Hazlitt (1877)

...exploring the artistic frontiers...

Words - Art - Photography

Speculative fiction and more... ~ "All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now." ~ Pearl S. Buck

An ocean of stories from Salman Rushdie: I'll be talking about stories I’ve read or seen, true stories, tall stories, stories about me, and some I just made up.

Science, Art & Poetry