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when visiting my muse
\nI have come familiar
\nwith the neighborhood
\nthat surrounds where I stay
\nwhile doing what I call
\na shuffle-jog
\nsomething
\nI came up with
\nto minimize
\ninflammation
\nin my arthritic joints
\nbecause I refuse
\nto stop exercising
\nand I have found
\nno better way
\nto nurture and calm
\nmy churning mind
\nalways thinking
\nlots of stuff
\nwhether deemed
\nvaluable or not
\n(my muse thinks
\nand thinks too)
\nwell anyhow
\non these runs
\ntwo stoic looking trees
\nEastern Redcedars
\nJuniperus virginiana
\nhave become
\nsymbols of strength
\nand reassurance for me
\nthey stand tall and defiant
\nas if to say
\nup yours
\nbring it on
\ntogether we can
\nwithstand
\nanything
\nthe Nature gods
\nthrow at us
\nand that’s how I feel
\nabout the bond between
\nmy muse and me
\nas two becoming one
\nin resolve ….\u00a0 \u00a0being there
\nfor each other
\nnot only overcoming
\nwhatever life
\npresents before us
\nwe’ll find joy\u00a0\u00a0 ~\u00a0 \u00a0hope
\nand fulfillment
\nlike these two trees
\nwithin our acts of defiance<\/p>\n
Image & Words by\u00a0\u00a0 ~Keith Alan Hamilton~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
when visiting my muse I have come familiar with the neighborhood that surrounds where I stay while doing what I call a shuffle-jog something I came up with to minimize inflammation in my arthritic joints because I refuse to stop exercising and I have found no better way to nurture and calm my churning mind … Continue reading “stoic”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rlf","category-muse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}