{"id":3275,"date":"2022-02-07T07:20:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T12:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=3275"},"modified":"2022-02-07T07:26:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T12:26:10","slug":"altered-horizons-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/altered-horizons-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Horizons 38"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the next year or two I will move away from my house by Moonbeckon Pond. The thing I will miss most is my view of the sparkling pond right outside the large south-facing windows. A hundred times each day, my eyes rest on that sight; from the early morning light until the darkness of nighttime, the sight of that pond calms me. The place I will move to has no water features. The landscape consists of row upon row of attached houses and parking areas. When I no longer have my pond to gaze upon, in order to soothe my sore eyes, I will need to have created landscapes to hang on my new walls.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although this scene was collaged in Photoshop using items of sentimental value\u2014a foreground made up of several shots of my kids\u2019 old dog-robot toy, a sky crafted from grillwork in Australia\u2019s Old Melbourne Jail, a moon that is from the bottom of a bowl of my mother\u2019s that\u2019s been with me over half a century, and a frame pieced together from drainage strips on the doorstep of my current beloved home\u2014this is not the landscape that will settle my soul.<\/span><\/p>\n

Altered Horizons 38<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the next year or two I will move away from my house by Moonbeckon Pond. The thing I will miss most is my view of the sparkling pond right outside the large south-facing windows. A hundred times each day, my eyes rest on that sight; from the early morning light until the darkness of […]<\/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":[2360,2259,2357,705,2271,314,2358,2356,2359],"class_list":["post-3275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-h","tag-altered-horizons-38","tag-coping-with-change","tag-coping-with-grief-and-loss","tag-dealing-with-depression","tag-fabricated-landscapes","tag-grieving","tag-losing-something-you-love","tag-losing-what-youre-familiar-with","tag-upended-life-therapeutic-photography"],"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