{"id":1035,"date":"2024-12-07T19:38:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T00:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2024-12-07T19:38:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T00:38:05","slug":"7-decembrance-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2024\/12\/07\/7-decembrance-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"#7 decembrance 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I talk about pottery I often use the phrase the seeds of ideas<\/em>. I describe what I have been looking at in nature, or what I have been inspired by historically. I might use words to refer to a line, material, or scent but it is the feeling, the heft, the impression I am searching for. The pot is like a poem that opens the reference to spring when the pond is frozen, or mentions planting seeds when stuck in the short, frigid days of December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Presence in Absence <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poetry is not made of words.
I can say it\u2019s January when
it\u2019s August. I can say, \u201cThe scent
of wisteria on the second floor
of my grandmother\u2019s house
with the door open onto the porch
in Petaluma,\u201d while I\u2019m living
an hour\u2019s drive from the Mexican
border town of Ojinaga.
It is possible to be with someone
who is gone. Like the silence which
continues here in the desert while
the night train passes through Marfa
louder and louder, like the dogs whining
and barking after the train is gone.

–Linda Gregg, \u201cThe Presence in Absence\u201d from In the Middle Distance<\/a> \u00a9 2006 Linda Gregg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I talk about pottery I often use the phrase the seeds of ideas. I describe what I have been looking at in nature, or what I have been inspired by historically. I might use words to refer to a line, material, or scent but it is the feeling, the heft, the impression I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}