| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Elizabeth and her German Garden by Marie Annette Beauchamp: at the trees as she passed and making them a curtesy.
"Good-bye, trees," I heard her say; and then she made the Japanese
doll bow to them, which he did, in a very languid and blase fashion.
"You'll never see such trees again," she told him, giving him
a vindictive shake, "for you'll be brokened long before next time."
She went out, but came back as though she had forgotten something.
"Thank the Christkind so much, Mummy, won't you,
for all the lovely things He brought <149> us. I suppose
you're writing to Him now, isn't you?"
I cannot see that there was anything gross about our Christmas,
and we were perfectly merry without any need to pretend, and for at least
Elizabeth and her German Garden |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: the big summer hats, with stones on them to keep them from blowing away,
looked like immense shells. It was strange that even the sea seemed to
sound differently when all those leaping, laughing figures ran into the
waves. Old Mrs. Fairfield, in a lilac cotton dress and a black hat tied
under the chin, gathered her little brood and got them ready. The little
Trout boys whipped their shirts over their heads, and away the five sped,
while their grandma sat with one hand in her knitting-bag ready to draw out
the ball of wool when she was satisfied they were safely in.
The firm compact little girls were not half so brave as the tender,
delicate-looking little boys. Pip and Rags, shivering, crouching down,
slapping the water, never hesitated. But Isabel, who could swim twelve
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Proverbs 31: 24 She maketh linen garments and selleth them; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
Proverbs 31: 25 Strength and dignity are her clothing; and she laugheth at the time to come.
Proverbs 31: 26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and the law of kindness is on her tongue.
Proverbs 31: 27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Proverbs 31: 28 Her children rise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her:
Proverbs 31: 29 'Many daughters have done valiantly, but thou excellest them all.'
Proverbs 31: 30 Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
Proverbs 31: 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her works praise her in the gates.
Ruth 1: 1 AND IT came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem in Judah went to sojourn in the field of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
Ruth 1: 2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem in Judah. And they came into the field of 
The Tanach |
