Letter 4531
The late nights, the frantic action, the hoarding, I have left them behind.
In their place: simple mornings, orderly habits. Do I feel the loss of what I had, though it created bedevilements?
As the leaves turn, the limbs lose their cover. Do they feel this loss?
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Skin after skin. Growth after growth. In the transition is when I feel the change.
I have chosen this. I have chosen this loss. Let me choose again.
Consider:
Can I feel new growth in the place of old ways?
Reading:
❖ “So this constant abrasion and decay makes the soil of my future growth.” — Henry David Thoreau, Journal, October 24, 1837
❖ “He says the best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost, “A Servant to Servants,” North of Boston
❖ “A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;” — Ecclesiastes 3:6 (KJV)
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~B.R.