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The sunset of 19 December 2013 at Barrowfield, exactly one month since our move.


On February 9, 1922, Rainer Maria Rilke writes to his publisher Anton Kippenberg on completion of his book, Duino Elegies, which took him ten years.

"Dear friend, now at last I can breathe. Everything is doable now. For this was huge beyond imagining... That I survived it! That I survived it.

 Enough. It is here."

I read this in a book of daily readings, A Year with Rilke, on this day, the 20th of December. It is exactly one month since we moved to Barrowfield in Wakkerstroom.  It therefore seems no coincidence.

We feel pretty much the same. Though we don't have a book to show(yet) and there is still a lot to do, it somehow feels doable in the light of what has been achieved.

Up till now and for the past year, we could only focus on the task of getting here with all its complex logistics.

That we survived it.
Enough. We are here.

What next? We don't exactly know.

Matilda

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