| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: timberline trees far behind. How pitiful Cabin Rock and
Twin Sisters looked compared to this. She climbed easily
and steadily, stopping for brief rests. Early in the week
she had ridden down to the village, where she had bought
climbing breeches and stout leggings. She laughed at Albert
Edward and his fears. By one o'clock she had reached
Boulder Field. She found the rocks glazed with ice. Just
over Keyhole, that freakish vent in a wall of rock, the blue
of the sky had changed to the gray of snow-clouds.
Tenderfoot though she was, she knew that the climb over
Boulder Field would be perilous, if not impossible.
Fanny Herself |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: The perfect word that is the poet's wand!
The sonnet is a crown, whereof the rhymes
Are for Thought's purest gold the jewel-stones;
But shapes and echoes that are never done
Will haunt the workshop, as regret sometimes
Will bring with human yearning to sad thrones
The crash of battles that are never won.
Verlaine
Why do you dig like long-clawed scavengers
To touch the covered corpse of him that fled
The uplands for the fens, and rioted
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: privately in the tea-pot, and spit and
growled at the tailor; and if Simpkin
had been able to talk, he would have
asked: "Where is my MOUSE?"
"Alack, I am undone!" said the
Tailor of Gloucester, and went sadly
to bed.
All that night long Simpkin hunted
and searched through the kitchen,
peeping into cupboards and under the
wainscot, and into the tea-pot where
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