{"id":1979,"date":"2020-12-16T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T18:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2020-12-16T17:30:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T22:30:57","slug":"the-conception-of-my-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/2020\/12\/16\/the-conception-of-my-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conception of My Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nine years ago, I heard the dreaded words everyone fears and secretly thinks will never happen to him\/her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\"><strong>\u201cYou have cancer.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Those words cleaved a gorge the sand.<br>My life before\/my life after.<br>Nothing was the same.<br>Nothing will be the same.<br>Ever again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The beauty is so much of my life is greater than before.<br>I am greater than I was before.<br>Staring into the eyes of death changes you in unimaginable ways.<br>Beneath the ashes, my wings were conceived.<br>My perspective and gratitude grew deeper and wider.<br>My strength and courage came out of slumber.<br>My humor carried me through the roughest spots.<br>My wisdom heightened.<br>My heart expanded.<br>I evolved.<br>Nancy, version 3.0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My loved ones held my hand, cradled my heart, and walked by my side. Writing helped me process the worst of the storm, was cathartic for me, and captured a still shot for others to peer through my lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Nine years later.<br>A lifetime away.<br>A blink of an eye.<br>A warp of time.<br><br>Lessons learned.<br>Growth continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the canyon dividing the before\/after becomes more distant, there are times, I get tangled up in daily stresses. My pink-colored glasses become askew. There is beauty in moving far enough away that for just one moment, the rose hue fades into the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Calendar pages are flipped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Pink is not the only color on my palette.<br>Life contains a burst of bright, bold colors, <br>sparkles and glitter, <br>rainbows and prisms.<br>Today, I celebrate how pink <br>blends, highlights, and integrates <br>within life&#8217;s continuous spectrum!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nancy L. Baskin Michlin<br>December 16, 2020<br>Dedicated: 9 Years<br>Poem #414<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"499\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201216_094923_2-499x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201216_094923_2-499x1024.jpg 499w, https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201216_094923_2-146x300.jpg 146w, https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201216_094923_2-768x1575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201216_094923_2-749x1536.jpg 749w, https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201216_094923_2-999x2048.jpg 999w, https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201216_094923_2-scaled.jpg 1249w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><figcaption><strong>9 Years Strong!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine years ago, I heard the dreaded words everyone fears and secretly thinks will never happen to him\/her. \u201cYou have cancer.\u201d Those words cleaved a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[115,19],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/131890108_10157988423798182_7034892022424677460_n.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/1988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}