{"id":2293,"date":"2025-12-01T19:34:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2025-12-01T19:34:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:34:32","slug":"1-decembrance-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2025\/12\/01\/1-decembrance-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"#1 decembrance 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the heels of Thanksgiving, December 1st has arrived. We have been sharing the kitchen with more cooks than is usual and cooking more pies than is typical. Obviously, we happily used lots more pottery as well. There is always an inherent pressure to do something special\u2014experiment with a new recipe while ensuring there is more than enough. At the same time, there is the preference that pulls us to repeat what has become tradition. My daughter takes after her dad\u2014she reads instructions carefully and creatively follows directions well. I am someone who believes in the paradoxical repetition of rituals to achieve transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The practice of sharing the house with lots of family, a dog, and an extra cat can be tiring but also grounding. In our lives these days we can measure so many things. But we can\u2019t measure the importance of rubbing shoulders, watching hundreds of ducks fly off the pond, the fictions our four-year-old grandson spins and the dances he creates. There are the frictions, hubbub, and silences of life that occur. These efforts feel both finite and infinite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You always call it the same river, but the water’s never the same.
In a world where we can measure everything \u2014 or we think we can measure everything \u2014 how wonderful it is that you could have \u2026 poetry or music that actually makes you think you are touching infinity.

\u2014Yo-Yo Ma in an interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the heels of Thanksgiving, December 1st has arrived. We have been sharing the kitchen with more cooks than is usual and cooking more pies than is typical. Obviously, we happily used lots more pottery as well. There is always an inherent pressure to do something special\u2014experiment with a new recipe while ensuring there is […]<\/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-2293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293","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=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}