{"id":3195,"date":"2021-11-22T07:19:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=3195"},"modified":"2021-11-22T19:24:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T00:24:22","slug":"altered-horizons-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/altered-horizons-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Horizons 27"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are many pieces to this holiday, Thanksgiving. I used to be into it solely for the feasting until I had children and discovered the part about being grateful and generous. Then, after my daughter died and I lost my gratitude and graciousness for a while, I dreaded holidays. It took a long time to discover that the caring of others was what would fix my battered heart. Thanksgivings became warm welcome gatherings as family and\/or friends assembled to celebrate and commiserate, to listen and to share.<\/span><\/p>\n

This week\u2019s fabricated landscape is an assemblage of images I gathered together from several different outings I took with my photography class this semester. At the Old Souls Home in Owego, NY I found (and later reshaped in Photoshop) an antique golden frame and a set of old tin tart pans. The bristly scrub brush was lying abandoned on a windowsill at Cornell\u2019s Hydroplant. The grates and grills were at Cornell\u2019s Lake Source Cooling Plant. I photoshopped the fluted outer frame from a tractor\u2019s yellow-painted running board that I photographed at University Sand and Gravel in Brooktondale, NY. As in many Thanksgiving gatherings, the collection of characters may be eclectic but the mix makes for a cozy coming together anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n

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There are many pieces to this holiday, Thanksgiving. I used to be into it solely for the feasting until I had children and discovered the part about being grateful and generous. Then, after my daughter died and I lost my gratitude and graciousness for a while, I dreaded holidays. It took a long time to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[2325,438,705,327,2271,976,1764,2272,2285,1734,2270,2255],"class_list":["post-3195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-h","tag-altered-horizons-27","tag-coping-with-loss","tag-dealing-with-depression","tag-dealing-with-loss-on-thanksgiving","tag-fabricated-landscapes","tag-grief-and-loss","tag-holiday-blues","tag-photoshopping-for-healing","tag-phototherapy","tag-thanksgiving-and-gratitude","tag-upended-life","tag-upside-down-world"],"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