Wandering restless as the leaves. Autumn Day (Herbsttag) Rainer Maria Rilke Lord, it is time. The summer was so great. Let fall your shadow on the sundials, and across the fields let loose the winds. Command the last fruits now to ripen: Give them two more days as from the south, Drive them to completion and chase The final sweetness into heavy wine. Who has no house will not build now Who is alone, alone will stay Will wake and…
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are but princesses that are waiting to see us act just once with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that needs our help.†~ Rainer Maria Rilke “Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, of independence of mind, even in such terrible conditions of psychic and physical stress.” ~ Viktor Frankl “Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to…