Quote of the Week “Re-examine all that you have been told…dismiss that which insults your soul.” -Walt Whitman Featured Cultural Offering Dec 13 – CELEBRATE IOWA GALA. 519 Park Street | Des Moines, IA 50309 Presented By: Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs Location: Scottish Rite Consistory Phone: (515) 281-5111 Start/End Time: 7:00 PM to
Read More →Quote of the Week “When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.” -The Dalai Lama Featured Cultural Offering Dec 6, 5:00-8:00 PM. Free to the public. First Friday / From Pedestal to Table Hosted by Mainframe Studios CERAMICS EXHIBITION
Read More →Quote of the Week “We ought to give thanks for all fortune: If it is ‘good,’ because it is good, If ‘bad’ because it works in us patience [and] humility…” -C.S. Lewis (1989-1963) writer, lay theologian Featured Cultural Offering Small business Saturday – Sat Nov 30 @ Mainframe Studios. Saturday,
Read More →Quote of the Week “Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul.” -Seneca the Younger (d. Apr 12, 65 AD) Featured Cultural Offering AMES TOWN & GOWN
Read More →Quote of the Week “We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for
Read More →Quote of the Week “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.” -Mary Oliver, poet, National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize (1935-2019) Featured Cultural Offering BEAST VILLAGE
Read More →Quote of the Week “The whole country wants civility. Why don’t we have it? It doesn’t cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having
Read More →Quote of the Week History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. This is very often attributed to Mark Twain, but the earliest published source yet located is by Joseph Anthony Wittreich in Feminist Milton (1987) where he writes: “History may not repeat itself but it does rhyme, and every
Read More →Quote of the week: “Children need art and stories and poems and music as much as they need love and food and fresh air and play.” – Phillip Pullman, from his presentation for the tenth anniversary of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2012 Are you curious about where I find these
Read More →“I do not ‘get’ ideas; ideas get me.” -Robertson Davies, Canadian writer, 1913-1995 Are you curious about where I find these quotes? Dr. Mardy Grothe is considered the foremost authority on quotations, and offers a weekly newsletter (free, quick read, always great content) and use his online “Dr. Mardy’s Dictionary
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