Air, and cruelty, and love.

Design by Scott Naismith

I am learning to see something new. In addition to sky and land, a third thing has equal significance: the air.

Things usually appear to me as finite and limited in comparison with the great body of Earth. But here there are many things that seem like islands…alone, brightly caressed on all sides by ever-moving air that makes their forms stand out so clearly.

-Rilke, Early Journals

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Leave the cruelty to kings.

Without that angel barring the way to love

there would be no bridge for me into time.

-Rilke, From the book of Hours I, 53

These are extraordinarily difficult days. Together, let’s be careful what we amplify, not only with our thoughts, but our words and messaging. -dayle