{"id":246,"date":"2013-09-16T10:02:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T10:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2014-01-22T11:09:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T11:09:43","slug":"healing-from-loss-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/healing-from-loss-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Healing from Loss: For Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/JOANinNYC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-247 alignleft\" alt=\"JOANinNYC\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/JOANinNYC-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"507\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/JOANinNYC-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/JOANinNYC-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/JOANinNYC-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/JOANinNYC.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a>The now I know will be different on the other side of a blink.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I went on the Tompkins Cortland Community College Art Club excursion today, an 18-hour whirlwind trip to New York City and back.<\/p>\n<p>Things change. I may never get another opportunity like this (it was free). Who knows if or when I\u2019ll have the time or energy to pull this off again. But today I\u2019m cruising.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I went on the Tompkins Cortland Community College Art Club excursion today, an 18-hour whirlwind trip to New York City and back.<\/p>\n<p>Things change. I may never get another opportunity like this (it was free). Who knows if or when I\u2019ll have the time or energy to pull this off again. But today I\u2019m cruising.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TimesSquare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-248 alignright\" alt=\"TimesSquare\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TimesSquare-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TimesSquare-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TimesSquare-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TimesSquare-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TimesSquare-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TimesSquare.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In that spirit, I joined 35 other students and faculty on a Swarthout bus at 6AM this morning. After 4 hours on the road we burst off the bus and darted through the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan, and the Museum of Modern Art. I glimpsed many works of art, like the Jules Bastien-Lepage painting of Joan of Arc, that had inspired me as a young girl. It was like running into old friends. We dashed through Central Park. Finally we had a fast dinner at the Pain Quotidien Bakery, hopped back on the bus, and drove through Times Square.<\/p>\n<p>The almost-full moon is following us now as we speed along the highway to home.<\/p>\n<p>Now I am at the end of my 6th rewrite of my memoir. It is time to start looking for an agent or publisher. I am about to start writing a bi-monthly column for a small online newspaper. The essay I\u2019ve been working on for over a month is due in 2 days and in the morning I will submit it to a contest. My son is home and healthy.<\/p>\n<p>The now I know is full of bright lights and promises. I can celebrate. For now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The now I know will be different on the other side of a blink. That&rsquo;s why I went on the Tompkins Cortland Community College Art Club excursion today, an 18-hour whirlwind trip to New York City and back. Things change. I may never get another opportunity like this (it was free). Who knows if or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-25"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}