| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: if you hadn't understood! I took everything from her--everything--
even to the poor shelter of loyalty she'd trusted in--the only
thing I could have left her!--I took everything from her, I
deceived her, I despoiled her, I destroyed her--and she's given me
YOU in return!"
His wife's cry caught him up. "It isn't that she's given ME to
you--it is that she's given you to yourself." She leaned to him
as though swept forward on a wave of pity. "Don't you see," she
went on, as his eyes hung on her, "that that's the gift you can't
escape from, the debt you're pledged to acquit? Don't you see
that you've never before been what she thought you, and that now,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: cold, but the sun is warm. The great spring
humming and promise is in the air. And a few thousand
feet higher you wallow over the surface of drifts
while a winter wind searches your bones. I used to
think that Santa Claus dwelt at the North Pole.
Now I am convinced that he has a workshop somewhere
among the great mountains where dwell the
Seasons, and that his reindeer paw for grazing in the
alpine meadows below the highest peaks.
Here the birds migrate up and down instead of
south and north. It must be a great saving of trouble
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: the minister's mother -- Stephen was so like her that
a question concerning it was futile.
Stephen colored a little angrily at Christopher's
remark -- he was a hot-tempered man, although a
clergyman; then he asked him to be seated.
Christopher sat down opposite the minister. "I
oughtn't to have spoken so," he apologized, "but
what I am doing ain't like me."
"That's all right," said Stephen. He was a short,
athletic man, with an extraordinary width of shoul-
ders and a strong-featured and ugly face, still indica-
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