{"id":1061,"date":"2024-12-15T19:46:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T00:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2024-12-15T19:49:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T00:49:27","slug":"15-decembrance-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2024\/12\/15\/15-decembrance-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"#15 decembrance 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last night after sunset I called a friend. She commented on the moon rise. I had been pondering the last light in the western sky. I am glad she inspired me to look for the moon, which was almost full and reflected in the pond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This morning when Warren and I returned from our morning walk the sky began to spit raindrops. Later, the light drizzle turned to snow flurries. I hunkered down with my last two years worth of notebooks, adding labels and revisiting their contents. The snow was picturesque and although I wanted to make paper cutouts of snow flakes I paged through the incompleteness of my sketchbooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Wonder of the Imperfect<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing that I do is finished
so I keep returning to it
lured by the notion that I long
to see the whole of it at last
completed and estranged from me<\/p>\n\n\n\n

but no the unfinished is what
I return to as it leads me on
I am made whole by what has just
escaped me as it always does
I am made of incompleteness
the words are not there in words<\/p>\n\n\n\n

oh gossamer gossamer breath
moment daylight life untouchable
by no name with no beginning<\/p>\n\n\n\n

what do we think we recognize<\/p>\n\n\n\n

–W. S. Merwin, The Wonder of the Imperfect<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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