Quote for Today: Mohsin Hamid
© Terri Oda with CCLicense The moth takes off again, and we both step back, because he’s circling at eye level now and seems to have lost rudder control, smacking into the wall on each round. He...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Akiba Ben Joseph
© Learning Lark with CCLicense The paper burns, but the words fly free. ―Akiba Ben Joseph
View ArticleQuote for Today: C. Joybell C.
They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of the head. But I say a good love is one that casts you into the wind, sets you ablaze, makes you...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Paul Dermée
Is it a world in the making that turns as it whistles to the depths of my being It is burning Suppose it were to appear A bleeding rosary at the window a sun setting on the marshlands ―Paul...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Ray Bradbury
It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous...
View ArticlePersonified Flame: Campfire Imps, Set 1
This week I am sharing a series of photos which I took at our campfire near Great Sand Dunes National Park in southern Colorado last June. Looking at them, I not only remember a beautiful, cool summer...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Annie Dillard
It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum....
View ArticleParty Scenes: Campfire Imps, Set 2
This is the second set of photos from a campfire near Great Sand Dunes National Park. As the fire gets rolling, the flame take up more intricate and bizarre dances, making for wilder personifications....
View ArticleQuote for Today: Robert E. Dunn
There is a little furnace within every heart that burns pain. It is formed by a masonry of scars as tick by tick the tireless mechanics of life strip the innocence bestowed upon us at birth. There are...
View ArticleThe Soul in the Flame: Campfire Imps, Set 3
I have enjoyed discovering a menagerie of characters in these campfire photos from a night my husband and I spent near Great Sand Dunes National Park last summer. It’s a bit like picking figures and...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Glenda Millard
Sometimes words come out of me and I don’t know where they come from or why. They’re like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can’t be stopped. ―Glenda Millard, A...
View ArticleQuote for Today: John Mark Green
Let’s burn our masks at midnight and as flickering flames ascend, under the witness of star-clouds, let us vow to reclaim our true selves. Done with hiding and weary of lying, we’ll reconcile without...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Ellen Hopkins
Torch every book. Char every page. Burn every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. ―Ellen Hopkins, “Manifesto” Image © Quinn Dombrowski with CCLicense
View ArticleFeatured Artist: Joan Leotta
Synkroniciti is pleased to welcome back poet and writer Joan Leotta from North Carolina, USA. We will be featuring her poem, “A Candle Wick Transforms, Transcends,” which speaks of an ordinary wax...
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