{"id":106,"date":"2020-06-04T21:06:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T01:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=106"},"modified":"2020-06-04T21:21:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T01:21:39","slug":"4-summer-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2020\/06\/04\/4-summer-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"#4 summer summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Most days I stretch and touch my toes. My friends I know from yoga may think this comes easily to me but I am not naturally flexible. I have practiced on being flexible since I was a teenager. I am working to stretch my understanding of racial inequality and how our nation has gotten to where we are. Every day I will stretch, read, make lists, take photographs, form pots, make drawings, take what other action I can as my way to greater flexibility and understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PRACTICE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I touch my toes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I was a child,
this was difficult.
Now I touch my toes daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2012, in Sanford, Florida,
someone nearby was touching her toes before bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three weeks ago,
in the Philippines or Myanmar, someone was stretching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow, someone elsewhere will bend
first to one side, then the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also do ten push-ups, morning and evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women\u2019s push-ups,
from the knees.
They resemble certain forms of religious bowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In place of one, two, four, seven,<\/em>
I count the names of incomprehension: Sanford, Ferguson,
Charleston,
Aleppo, Sarajevo, Nagasaki.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I never reach: Troy, Ur.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have done this for years now.
Bystander. Listener. One of the lucky.
I do not seem to grow stronger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Jane Hirshfield, from Ledger, Alfred A. Knopf, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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