| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tattine by Ruth Ogden [Mrs. Charles W. Ide]: Grandma Luty's visit was all a joy to Tattine, and so when, just at daylight
one morning, the setter puppies in their kennel at the back of the house
commenced a prodigious barking, Tattine's first thought was for Grandma.
"It's a perfect shame to have them wake her up," she said to herself, "and I
know a way to stop them," so, quiet as a mouse, she stole out of bed, slipped
into her bed-slippers and her nurse's wrapper, that was lying across a chair,
and then just as noiselessly stole downstairs, and unlocking the door leading
to the back porch, hurried to open the gate of the kennel, for simply to let
the puppies run she knew would stop their barking. Tattine was right about
that, but just as she swung the gate open, a happy thought struck those four
little puppies' minds, and as she started to run back to the house, all four
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar: murderous desire to throw the pink sun-bonnet and its owner into
the sea, when Natalie whispered audibly to one of her cousins
that "Mees Annette act nice wit' her lovare."
The sun was banking up flaming pillars of rose and gold in the
west when the little "Virginie" rounded Cat Island on her way
home, and the quick Southern twilight was fast dying into
darkness when she was tied up to the pier and the merry-makers
sprang off with baskets of fish. Annette had distinguished
herself by catching one small shark, and had immediately ceased
to fish and devoted her attention to her fisherman and his line.
Philip had angled fiercely, landing trout, croakers, sheepshead,
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: rewarded except for that which they have done?
We have not sent to any city a warner but the opulent thereof
said, 'We, in what ye are sent with, disbelieve.'
And they say, 'We have more wealth and children, and we shall not be
tormented.'
Say, 'Verily, my Lord extends provision to whom He pleases or
doles it out, but most men do not know; but neither your wealth nor
your children is that which will bring you to a near approach to us,
save him who believes and does right; these, for them is a double
reward for what they have done, and they in upper rooms shall be
secure.'
The Koran |
