{"id":50663,"date":"2019-05-31T09:54:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T15:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=50663"},"modified":"2019-05-31T09:55:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T15:55:39","slug":"death-and-its-meanings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=50663","title":{"rendered":"Death and its meanings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Beltane and the Cancer Moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vanitas<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Under the Cancer Moon I’ve wrestled with the news of cancer returning. Death and its meanings. At the Journal workshop I wrote in one exercise, death has found me. I still feel that way, that this is a mortality signal with little ambiguity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even so, I’m feeling upbeat, happy right now. Why? CT scan showed negative for metastases. So did the bone scan. That means the reemergence has happened in the prostate fossa. Localized. An easier place to treat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ozymandias, Shelley<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Death may in fact have found me, but prostate cancer may not be its agent. The word cure comes back into the vocabulary with these findings. If the radiation is successful, I’ll be a 72 year old guy with no cancer. Wow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will take a while to incorporate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beltane and the Cancer Moon Under the Cancer Moon I’ve wrestled with the news of cancer returning. Death and its meanings. At the Journal workshop I wrote in one exercise, death has found me. I still feel that way, that this is a mortality signal with little ambiguity. Even so, I’m feeling upbeat, happy right … Continue reading Death and its meanings<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,3907,4317,3996],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-reimagining-faith","category-shadow-mountain","category-third-phase-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50667,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50663\/revisions\/50667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}