thanks for all of the “get well’ wishes. aw shucks you guys really do care! anyway, i’m back in austin and feeling better, although i can’t quite kick this thing. i’m still really congested, so when i talk on the phone, i sound totally weird (according to several telephone witnesses). thank goodness the gnomes seem to have retreated…
anyhoo, i’m re-reading parts of “reaching out”, which i�have mentioned several times on this xanga already because it is an incredible piece of work. this morning i read a section quoting a letter by rainer maria rilke… and it struck me so deeply, the kind of impact you feel when a dear old friend�gives you adviced based on years of knowing you, years of connecting with you. these words still resonate within me (and i hope they continue to do so)… they encourage me in this time of uncertainty. so, of course, i must share:
“I want to beg you as much as I can… to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves… Do not now seek answers which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.� And the point is to live everything.� *Live* the questions now.� Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer… take whatever comes with great trust, and if only it comes out of your own will, out of some need of your innermost being, take it upon yourself and hate nothing.”
i’m sure going to try…
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