December 2009
2 posts
Welcoming the *Winter Solstice*
In the depths of winter, I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer. ~Camus
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
~Goethe
In the mood for Rilke
That is my window. I
just awoke so gently. I thought, I’m floating. How far does my life reach, and where does the night begin? I could think that everything around me is me; like the transparent depth of a crystal, darkened and mute. I think I could bring the stars inside of me, so large does my heart seem; so very much does it want to let go of him whom I have perhaps begun to love,...