{"id":2406,"date":"2023-05-07T21:23:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T04:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2023-05-07T21:51:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T04:51:15","slug":"road-maps-and-love-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2023\/05\/07\/road-maps-and-love-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Maps and Love Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Ranurte.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Ranurte.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Ranurte.png 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Ranurte-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Road Maps and Love Letters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">You don\u2019t need<br \/>\na road map to<br \/>\nfind Your way into<br \/>\nThe Mystery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">The Mystery being<br \/>\nthat Being of<br \/>\nLove and Light<br \/>\nthat Poets and Priests<br \/>\nstumble and dance and<br \/>\nwhirl and argue<br \/>\naround and about<br \/>\nuntil, exhausted,<br \/>\nthey settle on calling<br \/>\n\u201cGod\u201d or some feeble<br \/>\nvariation thereof,<br \/>\nwhen they<br \/>\nstamp out their<br \/>\nHoly Books and<br \/>\nprint their<br \/>\nroad maps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">The road maps<br \/>\nyou don\u2019t need<br \/>\nbecause You are<br \/>\nnative to<br \/>\nThe Mystery,<br \/>\nalready there,<br \/>\nand have been<br \/>\nsince The Mystery<br \/>\nburst into<br \/>\na billion fractals<br \/>\nof the Light,<br \/>\nincluding You.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">That is not to say<br \/>\nthere isn\u2019t<br \/>\nunfathomable Beauty<br \/>\nin those paintings and<br \/>\nphotographs and<br \/>\nmusic and dance and<br \/>\nstoryteller\u2019s<br \/>\nluminous arts<br \/>\nthat flow from<br \/>\nThe Mystery<br \/>\nlike an avalanche of<br \/>\nLove Letters<br \/>\ntoppled from piles<br \/>\npenned by<br \/>\nThe Mystery,<br \/>\nWho has nothing<br \/>\nbetter to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Ranurte; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Road Maps and Love Letters You don\u2019t need a road map to find Your way into The Mystery. The Mystery being that Being of Love and Light that Poets and Priests stumble and dance and whirl and argue around and about until, exhausted, they settle on calling \u201cGod\u201d or some feeble variation thereof, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}