{"id":326,"date":"2023-03-08T14:02:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T14:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twospiritlife.com\/?page_id=326"},"modified":"2023-03-08T14:32:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T14:32:11","slug":"the-muse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/twospiritlife.com\/?page_id=326","title":{"rendered":"THE MUSE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list has-dates wp-block-latest-posts is-layout-flow wp-block-latest-posts-is-layout-flow\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/twospiritlife.com\/?p=440\">Escape The Beast<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-07-29T16:49:47+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">July 29, 2025<\/time><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/twospiritlife.com\/?p=374\">I Will!<\/a><time datetime=\"2023-04-27T14:13:00+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">April 27, 2023<\/time><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/twospiritlife.com\/?p=349\">Along Tabitha Road<\/a><time datetime=\"2023-03-30T16:16:48+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">March 30, 2023<\/time><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/twospiritlife.com\/?p=317\">I Miss My Time With You<\/a><time datetime=\"2023-02-20T01:58:28+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">February 20, 2023<\/time><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/twospiritlife.com\/?p=290\">The Field And The Bird<\/a><time datetime=\"2023-01-06T11:16:17+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">January 6, 2023<\/time><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/twospiritlife.com\/?p=305\">Dear River<\/a><time datetime=\"2022-10-02T09:17:02+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">October 2, 2022<\/time><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/twospiritlife.com\/?p=296\">Full Circle<\/a><time datetime=\"2022-08-27T06:05:25+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">August 27, 2022<\/time><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/twospiritlife.com\/?p=175\">Her Again<\/a><time datetime=\"2022-08-11T02:34:36+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">August 11, 2022<\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From a very early age I developed a love of stories. My mother <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-329 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/twospiritlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/iPhone12_2-155-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/twospiritlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/iPhone12_2-155-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/twospiritlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/iPhone12_2-155-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/twospiritlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/iPhone12_2-155-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/twospiritlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/iPhone12_2-155-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>would frequently read to me and I cherish those moments to this day.\u00a0 She would take me to the local library and let me pick out stories on records, yes I&#8217;m that old, to listen to. I think I probably annoyed her to no end because I would play them over and over until I had memorized every word.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t long before I began creating my own stories. I would sit for hours trying to come up with a story line only to start one and never finish it. Something was missing. I still had the love of writing but I just didn&#8217;t have any soul to put into it. I was fighting too hard to hide who I truly am. Putting those feelings on paper would have destroyed me back then.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t until I stopped fighting that voice in my head that I was finally able to put my heart on paper. I have fallen in love with that voice. I call her my muse. Here you will find a collection of these short stories and thoughts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From a very early age I developed a love of stories. 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