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newness and promise

"The first moment of entrance, like that of love's, is always one of newness and promise."
Robert Finch in The Outer Beach

in

life has not forgotten

"remember that life has not forgotten you; it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall."  Rainer Marie Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

June

the only misfortune

'The only truly great misfortune is to have never been born.'  Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis in The Posthumous Memoir of Bras Cubas

from the mind's eye