{"id":137,"date":"2020-06-11T21:38:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T01:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=137"},"modified":"2020-06-11T21:38:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T01:38:31","slug":"11-summer-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2020\/06\/11\/11-summer-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"#11 summer summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Each Thursday Warren and I turn to each other and ask how did time run out of the week. I try not to listen to the news because I run out of tears. While the dish towel may run out of the ability to dry another plate, I stop to ask where did the idea of a plate come from? Was the first plate a hand, a rock or a leaf? As potters these are the questions that keep us going back to find answers that don\u2019t exhaust the questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A WELL RUNS OUT OF THIRST<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A well runs out of thirst
the way time runs out of a week,
the way a country runs out of its alphabet
or a tree runs out of its height.
The way a brown pelican
runs out of anchovy-glitter at darkfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


A strange collusion,
the way a year runs out of its days
but turns into another,
the way a cotton towel\u2019s compact
with pot and plate seems to run out of dryness
but in a few minutes finds more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


A person comes into the kitchen
to dry the hands, the face,
to stand on the lip of a question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Around the face, the hands,
behind the shoulders,
yeasts, mountains, mosses multiply answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


There are questions that never run out of questions,
answers that don\u2019t exhaust answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Take this question the person stands asking:
a gate rusting open.
Yes stands on its left, no<\/em> on its right,
two big planets of unpainted silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

–Jane Hirshfield, from The Beauty,<\/em> Alfred A. Knopf, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each Thursday Warren and I turn to each other and ask how did time run out of the week. I try not to listen to the news because I run out of tears. While the dish towel may run out of the ability to dry another plate, I stop to ask where did the idea […]<\/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-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","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=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}