| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: novelette" countess couldn't have accomplished her ends better.
She drove one man nearly wild with the pretty little treachery,
and the other man abandoned her and came West to forget the
trickery.
Moon-face was that man.
We rounded and limped over a low spur of hill, and came out upon
a field of aching, snowy lime rolled in sheets, twisted into
knots, riven with rents, and diamonds, and stars, stretching for
more than half a mile in every direction.
On this place of despair lay most of the big, bad geysers who
know when there is trouble in Krakatoa, who tell the pines when
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: Malbone was shut out into the darkness and the chill. The only
two things to which he clung on earth, the two women between
whom his unsteady heart had vibrated, and both whose lives had
been tortured by its vacillation, went away from his sight
together, the one victim bearing the other victim in her arms.
Never any more while he lived would either of them be his
again; and had Dante known it for his last glimpse of things
immortal when the two lovers floated away from him in their sad
embrace, he would have had no such sense of utter banishment as
had Malbone then.
XVIII.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa: a weeping woman you heard. My son, do not say you like it. Do not
tell me it brought tears to your eyes. You have never heard me
weep. I can please your ear and break your heart. Listen!"
replied the great old toad.
Stepping outside, she stood by the entrance way. She was old
and badly puffed out. She had reared a large family of little
toads, but none of them had aroused her love, nor ever grieved her.
She had heard the wailing human voice and marveled at the throat
which produced the strange sound. Now, in her great desire to keep
the stolen boy awhile longer, she ventured to cry as the Dakota
woman does. In a gruff, coarse voice she broke forth:
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