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All Things Winter
watch the ice melt.

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allthingswinter

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08-26

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"Be patient toward all that is in your heart...try to love the
questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written
in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you
would not be able to live them.
And the point is, live everything. Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some
distant day into the answer."
- Rainer Maria Rilke

A rain had fallen from some warmer reigon in the skies when the cold here below was intense to an extreme. Every drop was frozen wherever it fell in the trees, and clung to the limbs and sprigs as if it has been fastened by hooks of steel. The earth was never more universally covered with snow, and the rain had frozen upon a crust on the surface which shone with the brightness of burnished silver. The icicles on every sprig glowed in all the luster of diamonds. Every tree was a chandelier of cut glass. I have seen a Queen of France with eighteen millions of livres of diamonds upon her person and I declare that all the charms of her face and figure added to all the glitter of her jewels did not make an impression on me equal to that presented by every shrub. The whole world was glittering with precious stones.
-John Adams

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