Hello Beautiful Friend!

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 as she navigates the tender, tumultuous process of growing into herself. There is so much to navigate as a young person!

This LoveGram also honors my friend Rachel, who gave me Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet back in 1984. I circled this quote the first time I read it, and that page has been dog-eared ever since—returned to again and again over the years.

And it also honors my friend Lila, who sent me a bookmark with this same quote just last week. I opened it moments after reading Angela’s reflections on the Rilke quote. 

 Kismet! All of it!

Here is the quote that 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

(To listen to today’s audio LoveGram, just scroll down on this page and click play on the audio player below!)

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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 1 pm.

Here’s today’s LoveGram: See purple box below!

Download and listen on the go here: LoveGram 12-14-25