| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: I asked the boy who drives the grocer's delivery
wagon, the old apple woman without teeth, the
morgue keeper, the plumber, the janitor, the
red-armed waffle baker in the window of a
restaurant full of marble-topped tables and
pallid-looking girls, the subway guard and the
millionaire,
And they all said,
"Poppies, poppies, poppies,
We have never known but three colors!"
I am a Great Virile Spirit;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Ezra 10: 15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this matter; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
Ezra 10: 16 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers' houses, after their fathers' houses, and all of them by their names, were separated; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
Ezra 10: 17 And they were finished with all the men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
Ezra 10: 18 And among the sons of the priests there were found that had married foreign women, namely: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
Ezra 10: 19 And they gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.
Ezra 10: 20 And of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
Ezra 10: 21 And of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
Ezra 10: 22 And of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
Ezra 10: 23 And of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah--the same is Kelita--Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: The beans bubbled rowdily on the front lid, and he pushed the pot
back to a cooler surface. After that he investigated the
biscuits, tested them with a splinter of wood, and placed them
aside under cover of a damp cloth. Dick, after the manner of his
kind, stifled his interest and waited silently. "A different
woman to Molly. Siwash."
Dick nodded his understanding.
"Not so proud and wilful, but stick by a fellow through thick and
thin. Sling a paddle with the next and starve as contentedly as
Job. Go for'ard when the sloop's nose was more often under than
not, and take in sail like a man. Went prospecting once, up
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