{"id":8800,"date":"2017-12-01T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/?page_id=8800"},"modified":"2024-08-20T13:55:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T17:55:37","slug":"last-word-renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/last-word-renewal\/","title":{"rendered":"LAST WORD: RENEWAL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Cynthia Sharpe, a former communications intern with North Carolina Sea Grant, holds an English degree from North Carolina State University.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide wp-image-8808\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"763\" src=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/08\/renewal2_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/08\/renewal2_web.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/08\/renewal2_web-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Top photo courtesy villagecraftsmen.blogspot.com. Bottom photo courtesy N.C. State Parks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide wp-image-8803\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/08\/renewal1_web.jpg\" alt=\"photos from Renewal poem\" class=\"wp-image-8803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/08\/renewal1_web.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/08\/renewal1_web-264x300.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cynthia Sharpe sees many images when she reads this poem: Earth spinning in space, familiar landscapes going through seasonal cycles, and the sun coming up behind snowy trees. Photos above courtesy of N.C. State Parks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3<\/strong> cheers for the world,<br>The hopeful soul that it is.<br>Ever aging,<br>Ever growing,<br>Ever changing<br>Life to dust and dust to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It must believe in greater things.<br>Love, hope, joy, abundance.<br>A reward of some sort<br>For it to keep pushing the way it does.<br>It must have been made a promise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or be bound by one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tortured by the mundane,<br>Nothing new under the sun.<br>Sick from spinning.<br>Indefinitely sentenced to wake and slumber,<br>Flourish and sacrifice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 cheers for the world,<br>That it somehow musters up the strength to renew itself.<br>HERself.<br>After 360 something days of promise.<br>It is a mother\u2019s strength.<br>I am my mother\u2019s child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article was published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/previous-issues\/2017-2\/winter-2017\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Winter 2017<\/a> issue of <\/em>Coastwatch<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For contact information and reprint requests, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/contact\/\">ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/contact\/<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 cheers for the world,<br \/>\nThe hopeful soul that it is.<br \/>\nEver aging,<br \/>\nEver growing,<br \/>\nEver changing<br \/>\nLife to dust and dust to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":7075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"views\/single-immersive.blade.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ncst_custom_author":"Cynthia Sharpe","ncst_show_custom_author":true,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-immersive-post-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{\"backgroundColor\":\"custombg_one\",\"displayCategoryID\":668,\"showAuthor\":true,\"showDate\":true,\"showFeaturedVideo\":false}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[668,756],"tags":[],"_ncst_magazine_issue":[1472,1468],"class_list":["post-8800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-668","category-winter-2017"],"displayCategory":{"term_id":668,"name":"2017","slug":"2017","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":669,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":56,"filter":"raw"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>LAST WORD: RENEWAL - Coastwatch<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"3 cheers for the world, The hopeful soul that it is. 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