live the question

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. 


Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Do you know what this means?

These are the lovely seed pods of my magnolia tree

and it means that summer is drawing to a close. Late

summer has always reminded me of a woman ready to

give birth, beautiful, heavy and ripe. Autumn is just

around the corner and September has just stepped

through the door!

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"Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds go loose. Command the last fruits that they shall be full; give them another two more southerly days, press them on to fulfillment and drive the last sweetness into the heavenly wine." - Rainer Maria Rilke