Big Thoughts, Human-sized Canvas
QuoteSnack offers a daily quote, attributed and linked to a confirmed, published source. In addition, each afternoon of every odd-numbered day I’ll post a writing prompt and some simple instructions. The next morning I’ll post a quote that has something to do with the prompt, so you can take a peek at differences or similarities [...]
In many, many German households, just before dinnertime on New Year’s Eve, everyone gathers around the TV to watch a black and white 1963 taping of the short British play Dinner for One. This comedic sketch is about a well-to-do English woman’s 90th birthday dinner. Birthday girl Miss Sophie seems to have outlived her friends, as James, her long-time servant, plays the part of all four dinner guests. Each course of…
She is logical and tolerant, most trustful of a world that has treated her kindly.
Once when some one asked her to define “love,” she replied, “Why, bless you, that is easy; it is what everybody feels for everybody else.”
QuoteSnack offers a daily quote, attributed and linked to a confirmed, published source. In addition, each afternoon of every odd-numbered day I’ll post a writing prompt and some simple instructions. The next morning I’ll post a quote that has something to do with the prompt, so you can take a peek at differences or similarities [...]
The willows which make the frame of the sweat lodge are set up on such a way that they mark the four quarters of the universe; thus, the whole lodge is the universe in an image, and the two-legged, four-legged and winged…
Today’s post will be published within an hour, and the writing prompt will get posted soon after that. Ideally, the writing prompt should have been posted about two hours ago, and the quote post would have been up about 12 hours back. The post I thought would be quick blossomed into paragraphs, and then I [...]
There was a noise behind me. A creak. This time I didn’t turn. I squeezed my eyes shut. Isaac, I whispered. The sound of my own voice frightened me, but I didn’t stop. I want to tell you – and then I broke off. What do I want to…
QuoteSnack offers a daily quote, attributed and linked to a confirmed, published source. In addition, each afternoon of every odd-numbered day I’ll post a writing prompt and some simple instructions. The next morning I’ll post a quote that has something to do with the prompt, so you can take a peek at differences or similarities [...]
“I don’t want ever to be a man,” he said with passion. “I want always to be a little boy and to have fun. So I ran away to Kensington Gardens and lived a long long time among the fairies.”
She gave him a look of the most intense admiration, and…
What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable…
QuoteSnack offers a daily quote, attributed and linked to a confirmed, published source. In addition, each afternoon of every odd-numbered day I’ll post a writing prompt and some simple instructions. The next morning I’ll post a quote that has something to do with the prompt, so you can take a peek at differences or similarities [...]
You would know the secret of death.
But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?
The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day…
