{"id":3148,"date":"2021-10-04T07:19:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T11:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2021-10-04T17:18:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T21:18:09","slug":"altered-horizons-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/altered-horizons-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Horizons 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Altered<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Long ago, someone told me I shined like Christmas. Even though it came from a stranger, I have never forgotten those words. Better than being told I was beautiful, \u201cshining\u201d was something I believed I was capable of. For years after, I did shine. I radiated, loved and was loved back. These days, though, I mostly feel worn down and chewed up. Like the light in me has been extinguished.<\/span><\/p>\n

My friend shakes her head at me, \u201cWhy are you photographing the worst-looking plants in my garden?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re more interesting than the perfect ones,\u201d I said. But it\u2019s more than that. I\u2019m drawn to survivors, to the ones with scars who, though maybe not always beautiful, have a mighty shining about them anyway. It might be evidence of my still unbroken hope that, even in the wormiest cabbage, I can see a sun.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Long ago, someone told me I shined like Christmas. Even though it came from a stranger, I have never forgotten those words. Better than being told I was beautiful, “shining” was something I believed I was capable of. For years after, I did shine. I radiated, loved and was loved back. These days, though, I […]<\/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":[2310,2259,705,2271,976,393,2272,2285,2309],"class_list":["post-3148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-h","tag-altered-horizons-20","tag-coping-with-change","tag-dealing-with-depression","tag-fabricated-landscapes","tag-grief-and-loss","tag-hope","tag-photoshopping-for-healing","tag-phototherapy","tag-upended-worldsurvivors"],"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