So, I had to get a new gmail address. One that was more professional and less "whimsical". (Although whimsy will always be the driving force behind everything I love and everything that makes me create.) And along with that, I had to create a new blog.
So this is it: Beauty and Terror, two battlefields between which we balance on a very precise edge. The quote is from an untitled poem by Rilke:
God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like flame
and make big shadows I can move in.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don't let yourself lose me.
Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.
Give me your hand.
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