Halloween – Rebecca

Halloween is not my favorite holiday. In fact, it’s only the supreme adorableness of the kids in my life that prevents me from becoming a total Halloween grinch! But when I was a kid, I loved it as much as every kid does. I loved the costumes, the candy, the Read more…

By Rebecca, 4 years ago November 11, 2013

How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples,
the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons
of our lives are princesses, who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being
something helpless that wants help from us.
So you must not be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises up before you larger than
any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloud-shadows, passes over your hands
and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life
has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. . . .
~ Rilke

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