{"id":2518,"date":"2026-06-15T19:43:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T23:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2026-06-15T19:43:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T23:43:54","slug":"15-summer-shards-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2026\/06\/15\/15-summer-shards-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"#15 summer shards 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early this spring there was a goose nest below the studio. It was a tender exposed thing at the pond&#8217;s edge that I checked on each day. Then, one day the eggs were lost, the nest strewn apart, and the adult geese lurking on the pond. My emotions took me by surprise when that clutch of eggs was lost. Now with the trees as witness, there are several families of geese that wander closer and closer to the house and garden. I see and hear the geese everywhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15-summer-shards-2026--1024x641.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15-summer-shards-2026--1024x641.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15-summer-shards-2026--300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15-summer-shards-2026--768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15-summer-shards-2026--1536x962.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15-summer-shards-2026--2048x1283.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Wild Geese<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are not wisdom<br>or freedom or history.<br>They are not what\u2019s lost.<br>They are nothing but wild geese.<br>I can hear them everywhere,<br>wings pushing down metaphor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014Victoria Chang, from <em>The Trees Witness Everything,<\/em> Copper Canyon Press, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early this spring there was a goose nest below the studio. It was a tender exposed thing at the pond&#8217;s edge that I checked on each day. Then, one day the eggs were lost, the nest strewn apart, and the adult geese lurking on the pond. My emotions took me by surprise when that clutch [&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-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","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=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}