{"id":3114,"date":"2021-08-30T07:15:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T11:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=3114"},"modified":"2021-08-30T22:02:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T02:02:36","slug":"altered-horizons-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/altered-horizons-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Horizons 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It took nearly all summer to find my way back to the old laptop and Photo-shopping. Despite the heat and rain, the past three months I\u2019ve only wanted to be outdoors. If I wasn\u2019t hiking, I was out by the pond. Raking algae, pulling pondweed, scrubbing the slimy stairs leading into the pond, paddling around in the tiny plastic boat. Who am I now, and what is with me, that I can\u2019t sit still? Now that I\u2019d rather push myself to work away in the heat than sit cool and comfy, creating new landscapes in Photoshop?<\/span><\/p>\n

And that blasted computer. Breaking down at my first attempt to create anything in weeks. It kinda confirmed that outside is where I\u2019m meant to be, for now. In the woods. In the pond, in the weeds. Anywhere but in the house in front of a computer.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It took nearly all summer to find my way back to the old laptop and Photo-shopping. Despite the heat and rain, the past three months I’ve only wanted to be outdoors. If I wasn’t hiking, I was out by the pond. Raking algae, pulling pondweed, scrubbing the slimy stairs leading into the pond, paddling around […]<\/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":[2254],"tags":[2296,2288,2292,438,705,2289,976,500,2291,2272,2295,2270,2255,191],"class_list":["post-3114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-h","tag-altered-horizons-15","tag-art-therapy","tag-bereaved","tag-coping-with-loss","tag-dealing-with-depression","tag-fabricated-landscape","tag-grief-and-loss","tag-living-with-grief","tag-looking-for-peace","tag-photoshopping-for-healing","tag-restlessness","tag-upended-life","tag-upside-down-world","tag-who-am-i-now"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t