In Memoriam: Taffety Punk’s Interpretation of Sylvia Plath’s Tulips
© artschoolgirl27 with CCLicense Fifty years ago today, a brilliant young poet sealed her kitchen off from her sleeping children with towels, placed her head in the oven and turned on the gas. Unable...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Rainer Maria Rilke
How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Sylvia Plath
© robert madeira with CCLicense I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Vincent van Gogh
Rock-hill with trees: Montmajour, van Gogh Arles, July 1888 In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Jonathan Safran Foer
© Carlotta Marelli with CCLicense I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others—the only thing worse...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Gustave Flaubert
The Abbey in the Oakwood, Caspar David Friedrich, 1808-1810 Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me...
View ArticleBeloved’s Journey: Chapter 2, Sable and Veracity
Synkroniciti presents the second Chapter of Beloved’s Journey, a serial novel. To read chapter one, please click here. Chapter 2, Sable and Veracity I will love you more than me And more than yesterday...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Melina Marchetta
The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and they went around the neighborhood saying, “We’re pregnant.” I want to go around the...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Paulo Coelho
“You don’t seem mad at all,” she said. But I am, although I’m undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Sylvia Plath
I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn’t feel a thing. If Mrs. Guinea had given me a ticket to Europe, or a round-the-world cruise, it wouldn’t have made one scrap of difference to...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Martin Seligman
I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Anton Chekhov
Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption,...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Rainer Maria Rilke
How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives...
View ArticleQuote for Today: James Jones
And the only way he had ever found, the only code, the only language by which he could speak and be heard by other men, could communicate himself, was with a bugle. If you had a bugle here, he told...
View ArticleLook and Listen #36: Joseph Pla-Narbona via Nowness
If you have ever struggled with depression, the whimsical and deep art of Josep Pla-Narbona and his story may be encouraging to you. He finds that drawing helps him to think and understand the world...
View ArticleFeatured Artist: Sara Collie
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome back writer Sara Collie. Her short story “The Light Box” is a magical piece that explores the relationship between a young girl and her grandmother and the tools...
View ArticleFeatured Artist: Sara Collie
Please welcome back writer Sara Collie. Sara won our “Birds” essay contest last summer with “Field Notes from When the World Was Ending” and her luminous essays, photos and stories have been published...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Jonathan Safran Foer
I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others—the only thing worse than being sad is for others to...
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