“We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.” SpaceCitiesHalfTechnologyFiveLandConnectionsTownsEdgesEnormousContactZoneWildernessSettlementSatellitesDisconnectionTime ZonesHalf Time Author:B. W. Powe
“Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.” SeaLandOceanRemainsEdgesBoundariesBelongingShoreSwingsTidesElusiveIndefinableDual Nature Book:The Edge of the Sea Source: The Edge of the Sea
“Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, That would reduce these bloody days again And make poor England weep in streams of blood! Let them not live to taste this land's increase That would with treason wound this fair land's peace! Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again: That she may long live here, God say amen!” MayLongBookPoorLordBloodLandTasteFairsIncreaseEnglandEdgesWoundsStreamsBloodyGraciousTraitorTreasonAmen Book:The plays of William Shakespeare Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
“A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand on the edge of the land and sea, I feel this tension, this fluid line of transition. High tide. Low tide. It is the sea's reach and retreat that reminds me we have been human for only a very short time.” FeelsHumansHas BeensMotherOpportunityHouseLinesSeaLandDangerLowsDaughterEdgesTensionZoneTransitionTidesRetreatDwellingFluidShort TimeMother And DaughterLand And Sea Book:When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“There's sometimes when I feel really balanced, and there's other times when I feel like I'm trying to keep juggling too many balls in the air, and I feel like I'm on the edge of dropping all of them and having them all land on my head, you know? Scheduling is a big part of it, and the other is just remaining flexible and keeping a sense of humor about things.” KnowsFeelsTryingSometimesBigsAirLandBallsEdgesSense Of HumorBalancedFlexibleDroppingJugglingScheduling Author:Michael Franti