{"id":18086,"date":"2021-11-28T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=18086"},"modified":"2021-11-26T11:07:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T16:07:56","slug":"evolving-emotions-thankful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2021\/11\/28\/evolving-emotions-thankful\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolving Emotions: Thankful"},"content":{"rendered":"

The comfort in knowing<\/p>\n

All is well<\/p>\n

And will be well<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The security felt<\/p>\n

When a sound<\/p>\n

Divulges its character<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The overwhelming joy that<\/p>\n

Echoes through the room<\/p>\n

At a ridiculous story<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The calm you keep<\/p>\n

Close to the chest<\/p>\n

Knowing your needs are met<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The common conversations<\/p>\n

That you simply<\/p>\n

Must absorb in your mind<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The familiar scent<\/p>\n

Of a home<\/p>\n

So loved<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

you get in the car<\/p>\n

your glance rips<\/p>\n

from familiarity<\/p>\n

each mile<\/p>\n

unnaturally separating<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The love<\/p>\n

The struggle<\/p>\n

The pain<\/p>\n

The growth<\/p>\n

The peace<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The memories you crafted fade<\/p>\n

As the path ahead expands<\/p>\n

You know you must<\/p>\n

Commence<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You tremble<\/p>\n

But trek onwards<\/p>\n

Hoping for greatness<\/p>\n

Cautioned towards aversiveness<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

No easier to swallow<\/p>\n

The tears well up<\/p>\n

As you are reminded of what you had<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Friends<\/p>\n

Remembrances<\/p>\n

Home<\/p>\n

Family<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Even so,<\/p>\n

Being apart<\/p>\n

Shows how well off<\/p>\n

You were<\/p>\n

And still are<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

They have given you this gift<\/p>\n

To separate from the world they made<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And form a new one.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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The comfort in knowing All is well And will be well   The security felt When a sound Divulges its character   The overwhelming joy that Echoes through the room At a ridiculous story   The calm you keep Close to the chest Knowing your needs are met   The common conversations That you simply […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2246,"featured_media":17715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1774,1520,34,281,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18086"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18088,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18086\/revisions\/18088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}