{"id":2528,"date":"2026-06-18T20:10:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2026-06-18T20:10:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:10:51","slug":"18-summer-shards-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2026\/06\/18\/18-summer-shards-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"#18 summer shards 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May your portions of salad green be generous. May you have beautiful plates upon which to serve your meal. <\/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\/18-summer-shards-2026-1024x641.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/18-summer-shards-2026-1024x641.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/18-summer-shards-2026-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/18-summer-shards-2026-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/18-summer-shards-2026-1536x962.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/18-summer-shards-2026-2048x1283.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I speak with the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We sit on our skeletons\u2019 bones.\u00a0<br>We hear with our skeletons\u2019 bones.<br>We speak of beauty by moving our jaws and our teeth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The original meaning of Paradise: a place,&nbsp;<br>a walled garden.&nbsp;<br>Our lives, our stories, this hour inside one.<br>A staircase from Piranesi. A hummingbird drinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outside it, vanishing species and rivers.<br>Outside it, Nanjing, Ninevah, Dresden.<br>Outside it, Gaza, Sudan, Myanmar, Kyiv. Here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world starts and ends, starts, ends, ends again,<br>restarts.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A kalpa is brief, and wall-less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unborn ones, take nothing for granted.<br>Not nectar, not thirst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May your lives be uneclipsed, your failures be passing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May you have your portions of beauty, of grief,&nbsp;<br>in a garden whose plants and birds I cannot imagine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014Jane Hirshfield, from Poem-a-Day, March 30, 2026, Academy of American Poets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May your portions of salad green be generous. May you have beautiful plates upon which to serve your meal. I speak with the future. We sit on our skeletons\u2019 bones.\u00a0We hear with our skeletons\u2019 bones.We speak of beauty by moving our jaws and our teeth. The original meaning of Paradise: a place,&nbsp;a walled garden.&nbsp;Our lives, [&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-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528","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=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2530,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions\/2530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}