{"id":66220,"date":"2026-01-19T07:07:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=66220"},"modified":"2026-01-19T07:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:07:06","slug":"on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=66220","title":{"rendered":"On the Road."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am traveling, just like the snow geese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC00126.jpg?resize=890%2C593&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66225\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC00134.jpg?resize=890%2C593&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66226\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A friend reminded me of this poem, fit for Martin Luther King Day.  Even more meaningful in this year of 2026, when powerful forces try to turn the clock back on history. There is no question in my mind that our response to the attempts to weaken or abolish the achievements of both, the Civil Rights Movement, and peace keeping organizations across the globe, are well served by Angelou&#8217;s reminders below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can rise, if we summon the courage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC00017.jpg?resize=890%2C593&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66227\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Still I Rise<br><br>You may write me down in history<br>With your bitter, twisted lies,<br>You may trod me in the very dirt<br>But still, like dust, I'll rise.<br><br>Does my sassiness upset you?<br>Why are you beset with gloom?<br>\u2019Cause I walk like I've got oil wells<br>Pumping in my living room.<br><br>Just like moons and like suns,<br>With the certainty of tides,<br>Just like hopes springing high,<br>Still I'll rise.<br><br>Did you want to see me broken?<br>Bowed head and lowered eyes?<br>Shoulders falling down like teardrops,<br>Weakened by my soulful cries?<br><br>Does my haughtiness offend you?<br>Don't you take it awful hard<br>\u2019Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines<br>Diggin\u2019 in my own backyard.<br><br>You may shoot me with your words,<br>You may cut me with your eyes,<br>You may kill me with your hatefulness,<br>But still, like air, I\u2019ll rise.<br><br>Does my sexiness upset you?<br>Does it come as a surprise<br>That I dance like I've got diamonds<br>At the meeting of my thighs?<br><br>Out of the huts of history\u2019s shame<br>I rise<br>Up from a past that\u2019s rooted in pain<br>I rise<br>I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,<br>Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.<br><br>Leaving behind nights of terror and fear<br>I rise<br>Into a daybreak that\u2019s wondrously clear<br>I rise<br>Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,<br>I am the dream and the hope of the slave.<br>I rise<br>I rise<br>I rise.<br><br>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/maya-angelou#tab-poems\">Maya Angelou<\/a><br><br>Source: The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (1994)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC00116.jpg?resize=890%2C593&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66228\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC00091.jpg?resize=890%2C593&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66229\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC00103.jpg?resize=890%2C593&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66230\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC00067.jpg?resize=890%2C593&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66231\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2lopLm7epBg\">poet<\/a> reciting her words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here it is underlined with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MBnq3OpKmqQ\">music<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am traveling, just like the snow geese. 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