{"id":1620,"date":"2024-03-09T11:19:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T17:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2024-03-09T11:19:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T17:19:57","slug":"journey-of-the-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1620","title":{"rendered":"Journey of the Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Rose Mary Robinson (Suggested by Janet Hilliker) <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">and so i go on journeys far and wide\r\nand walk the distant hills\r\nand watch the ever-closer stars\r\nand hear the wind around my hair.\r\n\r\ni follow, trembling as i climb\r\nthe rocks, no path laid out\r\nthat i can see, and yet\r\nas i look backward, there behind\r\na trail is carved\r\nfor others who would follow me.\r\n\r\nwhere do i go and who the voice\r\nthat beckons me?  sometimes i wonder\r\nat the yearning deep inside\r\nbut mostly do i climb, unknowing\r\nyet not blind.\r\n\r\nand sometimes do i almost understand\r\nthe medicines that grow with me\r\nand comfort give when i am lost\r\nbut not alone.\r\n\r\nand sometimes as i see a glimpse\r\nof life beyond the sky, i run\r\nrenewed with courage and the strength\r\nof eagle wings.\r\n\r\nthere is no sense of ending\r\nas i listen longingly, awake\r\nto songs within my drum.\r\nwho sings to me?  and who am i\r\nto know the music of the one\r\nwho calls to me?\r\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Poem from &#8220;Dreaming History: A Collection of Wisconsin Native-American Writing&#8221;  Mary Anne Doan and Jim Stevens, eds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author &#8211; Rose Mary Robinson &#8211; is <strong>of Ojibwa ancestry,<\/strong> is also known as\u00a0<strong>Kookooequay (Owl Woman).\u00a0 She<\/strong> was an influential figure in advocating for\u00a0<strong>indigenous peoples treaty rights<\/strong>\u00a0in Wisconsin.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/search.library.wisc.edu\/catalog\/9911125145202121\">She played a significant role in founding support groups ORENDA and the Midwest Treaty Support Network<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note:\u00a0 The author died and the original publisher\u2019s business was sold to another company which has since gone out of business.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where do I go and who the voice\/ that beckons me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-march-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}