Go to the limits of your longing - by Ashley Zhang

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and have patience with everything unresolved in your heart

Dear friend, I first encountered Rainer Maria Rilke in Homer, Alaska, an idyllic fishing town that lies at the terminus of North America’s highway system, where perennially snow-capped mountains kiss the waters of Kachemak Bay. Land of the midnight sun I had gone to Alaska to “find myself,” driven by the same force that had propelled so many to the frontier: an all-consuming yearning for a life greater than the one we were given; for a life of our own. I was approaching my final semester of college and had enrolled in a master’s degree I had little interest in, but believed to be a safe…

Go to the limits of your longing - by Ashley Zhang

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