All of these lines across my face Tell you the story of who I am So many stories of where I’ve been And how I got to where I am ~Brandi Carlile
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Rilke
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. ~Saul Bellow
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… don’t waste your courage on speed or squander it in flight. Everything is at rest: darkness and light, blossom and book. ~Rainer Maria Rilke The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It has been a week of bittersweet life and death. Events which were [...]
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This has been a week of incorporating new ways of coping for me. Pain {physical, mental/emotional} magnifies whatever we face in our dailies. At best, we hold steady as the clock marks the hours of each day {and night}. At worst, we hide away from any attempt to “help” or alter what we face — [...]
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. ~Hal Borland This past weekend {in the midst of face-to-face conversations, solitude and journaling in the rain} I felt as though something clicked within me. It was the cherry-on-top moment of being offline more {and more}, of abiding with words and pushing back [...]
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. ~William S. Burroughs There are parameters by which we move through our dailies — and our {wild and precious} lives — even for those of us who wiggle our heads from side to side, wrinkling our faces in denial. [...]
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And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke There are questions that I carry with me. Questions written on my heart … how much is too much? {big dreams, activity, sleep, [...]
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We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it. ~Rainer Maria Rilke Letting go can feel like giving up … But in fact, it is more an act of faith than of despair. After we do all that we can [...]
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