Welcome to your Sunday LoveGram.
I’m so glad and grateful that you are here with me, talking about things that matter.
I love being across the virtual table from you, connecting!
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Today’s LoveGram is being sent to you in honor of my new teenage friend, Angela, with whom I was paired for a pen pal connection via Month Friend.
I love my unexpected new friendship! Angela is taking great comfort in a quote I sent her (see below!) as she navigates the tumultuous time of growing into herself and her life. There is a lot to navigate as a young person these day.s
As well, it is also in honor of my friend, Rachel, who gave me Rilke’s book, “Letters to a Young Poet,” back in 1984. I circled this quote the first time I read that book. And that page is dog-eared, since I have taken my own in it countless times over the years.
Today’s LoveGram is also in honor of my friend, Lila, who sent me a bookmark with this quote just last week. I happened to open the bookmark just moments after reading Angela’s thoughts about the Rilke quote.
Kismet! All of it!
Here is the quote today’s audio LoveGram is based on:
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now 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, to 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
Click here to listen. Scroll down to the purple box at the bottom of the page. You can hear more about the connections we can make to ourselves and to others!
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I appreciate you and am grateful for your kind and compassionate heart.
Seek celebration — even in dark corners,
xo Sherry
💝 P.S. Want an email pen pal? Find out more about Month Friend.
💝 P.P.S. Listen to a recent conversation I had with Kim Rosen, author of “Saved by a Poem.” We talk about navigating loss and “everyday deaths.” Here is the link to our conversation. If you missed it a couple weeks ago, you can listen now.
💝 P.P.P.S. Do you live in the Marin/San Francisco Bay Area? If you do, I would love to meet you in person. I have a bookstore event at Book Passage Corte Madera on Jan 10th at 1pm.