Thought for the Day

Searching is hard work. The intensity of it can make us

frantic – [. . .] The loss can paralyze us. [. . .]

To find something lost, we must change our minds.

We must believe it is there to be found. [. . .]

~ Michael A. Longinow

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Quoted from "Go and Search Carefully," Center for Christianity Culture & the Arts, Biola University Advent Project 2024, December 25, 2024 (Online)

Dr. Michael A. Longinow, Chair, Department of Digital Journalism and Media, School of Fine Arts and Communication, Biola University; Advisor, Print Journalism, and Advisor, The Chimes (Newspaper); Co-Adviser, Media Narrative Projects, School of Fine Arts and Communication, Biola University (See About at the first link above for additional information about Dr. Longinow.)

Thought forthe Day

[. . . ] What does it mean to live in a place haunted

by the loss of water; can we hold the stories, memories,

and pain of those who've known it; and how do we learn 

to embrace what emerges in its wake?

~ Emergence Magazine

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Quoted from Introductory Remarks to Aralkum, Emergence Magazine Newsletter, January 12, 2025

This short film (watch it here or here), which premiered online on January 12, 2025, on Emergence, shows us the landscape that was once the Aral Sea, and how, since 1960, it has been transformed from our Earth's fourth largest body of inland water into what is called Aralkum, the world's youngest desert. It re-imagines the sea's existence as an elderly fisherman seeks to set sail again.

The 2022 film is the creation of documentary filmmakers Daniel Asadi Faezi and Mila Zhluktenko.

Thought for the Day

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.

To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,

and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,

and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

~ Wendell Berry

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Quoted from Wendell Berry, "To Know the Dark" in Soul Food: Nourishing Poems for Starved Minds (Bloodaxe Books, 2007), Sec. 1

Wendell Berry, American Novelist, Poet, Essayist, Environmental Activist, Cultural Critic, Farmer

The Berry Center

Thought for the Day

[. . .] you will never love art until you love

what it mirrors better."

~ John Ruskin

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Quoted from John Ruskin, The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford in Lent Term | The Works of John Ruskin, Vol. 4 (Smith, Elder & Co., 1874), p 45

John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), English Polymath (Writer, Lecturer, Art Historian, Art Critic, Draughtsman, Philanthropist, Geologist, and more)

Ruskin Museum

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

National Gallery of London (U.K.)