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Write the Year: December

Write the Year: December

A letter to you, from you

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Dec 05, 2023
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“Mysteriously, I feel what I have long preserved

revive itself within me

with newly arisen selfhood.

Awakening, it will pour cosmic forces

into my life’s outer work.

Growing, it will impress me into existence.”

— Rudolf Steiner

I read this verse yesterday, my second year, or second time around the spiral of these words and I felt the click of delight that I was indeed in pace with nature’s rhythm. Now, if you looked for external markers…

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