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Quote for Today: D.H. Lawrence
© pieceofmestock with CCLicense It is easy to see why each man kills the things he loves. To know a living thing is to kill it… To try to know a living being is to try to suck the life out of that...
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Undercurrents of Sensuality and Aggression in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Bela Lugosi as Dracula The most famous of vampires is Dracula. Why are we mesmerized by this character created more than a century ago? We owe our acquaintance with Dracula, a figure who has laced...
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Quote for Today: William H. Gass
© Finalrobo101 with CCLicense The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now between b and l, the relief at the...
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Quote for Today: Rainer Maria Rilke
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and...
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Quote for Today: Catherynne M. Valente
© Indy Kethdy with CCLicense Squeeze your eyes closed, as tight as you can, and think of all your favorite autumns, crisp and perfect, all bound up together like a stack of cards. That is what it is...
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Quote for Today: Doris Lessing
All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are...
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Quote for Today: Kahlil Gibran
And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath,...
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Sensuality of Texture: Geology of Shoes
Machines are so essential to daily life that we often fail to appreciate what we can make with our hands. Statue of a Cordwainer in Watling Street, LondonImage © Metro Centric with CCLicense A...
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Quote for Today: Walt Whitman
Smile O voluptuous cool-breath’d earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset–earth of the mountains misty-topt! Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged...
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Comfortable in Her Own Skin: Tradition, Modernity and the Dancing of Irina...
The society we live in shapes our understanding of body image and self. How does dance influence that understanding? Video via WorldDance NewYork. Irina Akulenko plays the blindfolded character of...
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Body in Motion: Climber Natalija Gros in Le Tango Vertical
The human body is capable of impressive feats. Is there an artistic and creative element present in athletic accomplishment? Natalija Gros© Urban Golob, used in accordance with Fair Use Policy When...
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Quote for Today: Edward Thomas
Digging To-day I think Only with scents,- scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot’s seed, And the square mustard field; Odours that rise When the spade wounds the root of tree, Rose,...
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Beneath the Surface: An Introduction to Underwater Photography and the Human...
Well-crafted portraits capture not only physical attributes, but hint at hidden truths. Underwater photography can provide unique and challenging perspectives. Public Domain Image via Pexels.com...
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Quote for Today: Sai Marie Johnson
We like it wet and we like it green, and we are the ones that they call obscene. ―Sai Marie Johnson Public Domain Image via Pexels
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Quote for Today: Jacob Nordby
The truth of Who You Really Are is vast. It is genius. It crackles with electricity and sensuality and other forbidden, dangerous things. You have longed for it all your life. You catch glimpses of...
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Where is the Refuge? The Melody of our Alienation
The power of the spoken word and the captured image can be woven together in a way that evades description. I thought I had finished synkroniciti’s short cycle on Yemen, when I ran across this...
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Quote for Today: Machado de Assis
Lovers’ language, give me an exact and poetic comparison to say what those eyes of Capitu were like. No image comes to mind that doesn’t offend against the rules of good style, to say what they were...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Robert Louis Stevenson
There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Bashõ
Falling upon earth, Pure water spills from the cup Of the camellia. -- Bashõ Image: The camellia's tears, Katherine McDaniel, 2019
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