| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: "I'll work like the devil, Winifred, and be home
again before you realize I've gone." He kissed
her quickly several times, hurried out of the
front door into the rain, and waved to her
from the carriage window as the driver was
starting his melancholy, dripping black
horses. Alexander sat with his hands clenched
on his knees. As the carriage turned up the hill,
he lifted one hand and brought it down violently.
"This time"--he spoke aloud and through his set teeth--
"this time I'm going to end it!"
Alexander's Bridge |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass: now keeping a store in that town.
Cut off, thus unexpectedly, Capt. Anthony died intestate; and his
property must now be equally divided between his two children,
Andrew and Lucretia.
The valuation and the division of slaves, among contending heirs,
is an important incident in slave life. The character and
tendencies of the heirs, are generally well understood among the
slaves who are to be divided, and all have their aversions and
preferences. But, neither their aversions nor their preferences
avail them anything.
On the death of old master, I was immediately sent for, to be
My Bondage and My Freedom |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: powerful friend. It makes considerable difference, in the voyage
of life, whether you chase the steamboat, or the steamboat chases
you.
Meantime our other canoe had approached unseen. The steamer passed
safely between the two boats, slackening speed as the pilot caught
our loud halloo! She loomed up above us like a man-of-war, and as
we climbed the ladder to the main-deck we felt that we had indeed
gotten out of the wilderness. My old friend, Captain Savard, made
us welcome. He had been sent out, much to his disgust, to catch a
runaway boom of logs and tow it back to Roberval; it would be an
all night affair; but we must take possession of his stateroom and
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