- Just one dragonfly can consume over one hundred mosquitos in a day - Dragonflies can fly backwards - They have nearly 360-degree vision - Their wings inhibit bacterial growth due to their natural structures - They're actually beautiful This is not stained glass, it's a wing.

At age 93, Pablo Casals – the greatest cellist of all time, and Yo-Yo Ma's hero – reflects on creative vitality and how working with love prolongs your life themarginalian.org/2014/12/03/pab…

Hate is a failure of imagination. Graham Greene

It’s been 1,116 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from attending school. Afghanistan remains the only country in the world where educating girls is illegal. #LetHerLearn

The sun was still in bed, but there was a lightness in the sky over the Hundred Acre Wood which seemed to show that it was waking up and would soon be kicking off the clothes. In the half-light the Pine Trees looked cold and lonely. ~A.A.Milne #dawn #MondayMorning

Clare Young, contemporary graphic designer and artist who works with collage, paper and fabric #WomensArt

Happy Birthday, Yo-Yo Ma! 🎉

Remember, God is always present in reality as it is, not merely as it should be. When we meet people who can smile in the presence of sadness, there’s a brightness about them — a clarity, a truth, and a freedom. #DailyMeditations tinyurl.com/mjfp2uc8

"The true and durable path into and through experience involves being true ... to your own solitude, true to your own secret knowledge." Nobel-winning poet Seamus Heaney's magnificent advice on life themarginalian.org/2016/01/19/sea…

“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future.”

Temple Gardens

It’s here. A long labor of love for all who’ve suffered, and it’s finally available. Find it at your favorite bookstore.

#CultureCare is to sanctify our imaginations.

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” ― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (art by Byeol Hyuna)

#CultureCare is to grieve, and behold our fractures. Academy Kintsugi

The Nobel Prize youtu.be/FzIB4LkVtUE?si…

The Nobel Prize youtu.be/TbI3an0h5h0?si…

The Nobel Prize Honoring the past while educating future generations ensures the message of peace and resilience endures. The legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki must never fade.

The Nobel Prize The legacy of Hibakusha inspire new generations to promote peace and nuclear disarmament.

#CultureCare is to persistently seek peace, to create a “culture of remembrance”