{"id":875,"date":"2008-03-25T00:17:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T00:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=875"},"modified":"2023-04-11T15:18:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T19:18:29","slug":"solitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/solitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Solitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>Meditation Point #119<\/strong><br \/>\nSo many stones are thrown at me<br \/>\nthat I no longer cover,<br \/>\nthe turret&#8217;s cage is shapely,<br \/>\nhigh among high towers.<br \/>\nMy thanks, to its builders,<br \/>\nmay they escape pain and woe,<br \/>\nhere, I see suns rise earlier,<br \/>\nhere, their last splendors glow.<br \/>\nAnd often winds from northern seas<br \/>\nfill the windows of my sanctuary,<br \/>\nand a dove eats corn from my palm&#8230;<br \/>\nand divinely light and calm,<br \/>\nthe Muse&#8217;s sun burnt hand&#8217;s at play,<br \/>\nfinishing my unfinished page.<\/p>\n<p>Anna Akhmatova<br \/>\n(translated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonykline.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthony Kline<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">A great poem reflecting on the blessings in life from someone whom seems would have nothing to feel blessed about.  This is a reflection we should all make in our lives; to often we focus on the negatives and miss the small wonderous treasures life gives to us even in our darkest moments.  Quiet your mind with your worries and your wrongs and your injustices; and take notice of the quiet, sweet blessings that otherwise go unnoticed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditation Point #119 So many stones are thrown at me that I no longer cover, the turret&#8217;s cage is shapely, high among high towers. My thanks, to its builders, may they escape pain and woe, here, I see suns rise earlier, here, their last splendors glow. And often winds from northern seas fill the windows<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/solitude\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-zen-thing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4898,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/4898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}