{"id":2229,"date":"2025-06-10T19:20:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T23:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2025-06-10T19:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T23:20:44","slug":"10-summer-shards-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2025\/06\/10\/10-summer-shards-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"#10 summer shards 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did an online yoga class this morning. The teacher is the sister of an old friend. I enjoyed her view into familiar poses. As we balanced in tree pose I studied my back deck and the beech tree beyond. I noticed not only the marigolds in my outdoor pots, but a crow balanced in a branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/10-summer-shards-2025-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/10-summer-shards-2025-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/10-summer-shards-2025-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/10-summer-shards-2025-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/10-summer-shards-2025-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/10-summer-shards-2025-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>My Crow<\/strong><br><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A crow flew into the tree outside my window.<br>It was not Ted Hughes\u2019s crow, or Galway\u2019s crow.<br>Or Frost\u2019s, Pasternak\u2019s, or Lorca\u2019s crow.<br>Or one of Homer\u2019s crows, stuffed with gore,<br>after the battle. This was just a crow.<br>That never fit in anywhere in its life,<br>or did anything worth mentioning.<br>It sat there on the branch for a few minutes.<br>Then picked up and flew beautifully<br>out of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;Raymond Carver, this poem appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3v9Hduu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>All of Us: The Collected Poems <\/em>by Raymond Carver<\/a>, published by Vintage Books, 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did an online yoga class this morning. The teacher is the sister of an old friend. I enjoyed her view into familiar poses. As we balanced in tree pose I studied my back deck and the beech tree beyond. I noticed not only the marigolds in my outdoor pots, but a crow balanced in [&hellip;]<\/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-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","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=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2231,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions\/2231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}