...some reminders from Rilke, 2007...

"Each thing is only a space, a possibility, and it is up to me to fill it perfectly or poorly. For since human beings and circumstances are so capricious and forever in turmoil, by what is one to measure oneself if not by the willing things?"

"i love the outsets, despite the fear and uncertainty that attach to all beginnings...begin to what? I begin - period. i have already begun a thousand lives this way...once you have led (life) up to a certain point it will complete itself at any cost - whether in your present time or sometime later - so why be afraid?"