| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: Have made her eyes less bright;
That all her girlhood thru
Never a cry of love made over-tense
Her voice's innocence;
That in her hands have lain,
Flowers beaten by the rain,
RIVERS TO THE SEA
And little birds before they learned to sing
Drowned in the sudden ecstasy of spring.
I love to think that with a wistful wonder
She held her baby warm against her breast;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: Nobody knew what ailed her but me--I knew only too well. In this
struggle her health was quickly broken: her white face,
attenuated form, and failing strength, threatened rapid decline.
I felt in my heart she would die, if she did not go home, and
with this conviction obtained her recall. She had only been three
months at school; and it was some years before the experiment of
sending her from home was again ventured on. After the age of
twenty, having meantime studied alone with diligence and
perseverance, she went with me to an establishment on the
Continent: the same suffering and conflict ensued, heightened by
the strong recoil of her upright, heretic and English spirit from
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sarrasine by Honore de Balzac: which the old man almost always deferred; and he would disappear, led,
or I might better say carried away, by her. If Madame de Lanty were
not present, the Count would employ a thousand ruses to reach his
side; but it always seemed as if he found difficulty in inducing him
to listen, and he treated him like a spoiled child, whose mother
gratifies his whims and at the same time suspects mutiny. Some prying
persons having ventured to question the Comte de Lanty indiscreetly,
that cold and reserved individual seemed not to understand their
questions. And so, after many attempts, which the circumspection of
all the members of the family rendered fruitless, no one sought to
discover a secret so well guarded. Society spies, triflers, and
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