{"id":2525,"date":"2026-06-17T18:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2026-06-17T18:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:44:26","slug":"17-summer-shards-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2026\/06\/17\/17-summer-shards-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"#17 summer shards 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I make an effort to give my pots names. When we are loading the wood kiln it helps to be able to say\u2014”hand me the small moon vase” or the large “sandwich vase.” I remember in 2013 when Warren and I were preparing for an exhibit of plates at Omen-Azen Mikio pressed us to come up with poetic names for each series of plates. At that point in time I thought of names in terms of clay, firing, or process, but he encouraged us to think of our pots like witnesses to nature. No matter if the piece felt ancient or classical Mikio nurtured us to find mysterious names that were beyond the material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Deer Tongue Grass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Pluto<\/strong>\n\nDon't feel small. We all have\nbeen demoted. Go on being\n\nmoon or rock or orb, buoyant\nand distant, smallest craft ball\n\nat Vanevenhoven's Hardware \nspray-painted purple or day-glow\n\norange for a child's elliptical vision\nof fish line, cardboard and foam.\n\nNo spacecraft has touched you,\nno flesh met the luster of your\n\nheavenly body. Little cold one, blow\nyour horn. No matter what you are\n\nplanet, and something other than\nplanet, ancient but not \"classical,\"\n\nthe controversy over what to call you\nlight-hours from your ears. On Earth\n\nwe tend to nurture the diminutive,\nroot for the diminished. None \n\nof your neighbors knows your name.\nNothing has changed. If Charon's\n\nnot your moon, who cares? She\nremains unmoved, your companion.\n\n\u2014Maggie Dietz, from That Kind of Happy<\/em>, University of Chicago Press, 2016<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I make an effort to give my pots names. When we are loading the wood kiln it helps to be able to say\u2014”hand me the small moon vase” or the large “sandwich vase.” I remember in 2013 when Warren and I were preparing for an exhibit of plates at Omen-Azen Mikio pressed us to come […]<\/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-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","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=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2527,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions\/2527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}