Thought for the Day

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully

appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

~ Wallace Stegner

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Quoted from Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose (1971, Winner, 1972 Pulitzer Prize; Viking, 2014) (This excerpt also is found in Christian Wiman, Ed., Home: 100 Poems (Yale University Press, 2021), p. 55

Wallace Stegner (February 18, 1909 - April 13, 1933), American Novelist, Environmentalist, and Historian

Thought for the Day

[O]ur eyes are not innocent. But we must hope to make them so.

We must refuse labels and prejudices, just try to see as a child sees.

~ Sister Wendy Beckett 

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Quoted from "Sr. Wendy on Art," Interview with Bill Moyers (YouTube), 2016

Sister Wendy Beckett (February 25, 1930 - December 26, 2018), Roman Catholic Nun, Art Historian, Art Critic on Television, Writer and Author

Obituary at The New York Times

Thought for the Day

Eighty percent of everything that is true and beautiful can

be experienced on any ten-minute walk. [. . .] On any ten-

minute walk anywhere [. . .] love abounds and abides,

 flirts and weeps with us.

~ AnneLamott

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Quoted from Anne Lamott, "Overture" in Somehow: Thoughts on Love (Riverhead Books, April 2024), pp. 1, 3

Anne Lamott, Author of Fiction and Nonfiction; Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient; Inductee, California Hall of Fame; Political Activist; Writing Instructor

Thought for the Day

[. . .] we need to look inward into our own pain, our own

loss, our own suffering, and see where we can heal. And

by healing ourselves, then we can truly be who we are,

which I believe is a complete gift to the world. [. . .]

~ Kalyanee Mam

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Quoted from "Documenting Shifting Landscapes: A Conversation with Kalyanee Mam," Emergence Magazine, September 5, 2024; Online (Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee interviewed Mam at Emergence Magazine's exhibition "Shifting Landscapes." The conversation was recorded live. A transcript is available at the link.)

 

Kalyanee Mam, Cambodian-American Filmmaker