| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: Mostly little minds should take and tackle their piano
While the birds are singing in the morning of the day.
FAIR ISLE AT SEA
FAIR Isle at Sea - thy lovely name
Soft in my ear like music came.
That sea I loved, and once or twice
I touched at isles of Paradise.
LOUD AND LOW IN THE CHIMNEY
LOUD and low in the chimney
The squalls suspire;
Then like an answer dwindles
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: went on, 'as well as three dachshund puppies,' and he laughed.
'Wouldn't you like one? What can we do with three--and the terrier,
and Brutus?'
'Oh, thank you, no.'
How could he laugh? How could he speak pleasantly of these intimate
details of his bondage? How could he conceive that she would
accept--
'Already she has arranged four dinner-parties! It will be a relief
not to have to think of that sort of thing--to be able to leave it
to her.'
'Mrs. Innes must have great energy. To drive all the way up from
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: Nor have We been wanting in attention to our British brethren.
We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their
legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and
settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice
and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our
common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably
interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been
deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore,
acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them,
as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
United States Declaration of Independence |
