{"id":399,"date":"2021-06-20T21:29:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T01:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=399"},"modified":"2021-06-20T21:29:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T01:29:53","slug":"20-summer-summit-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2021\/06\/20\/20-summer-summit-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"#20 summer summit 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I often describe firing the wood kiln as akin to steering a large ship. It takes a long time to gain momentum, to load, and then to change direction. The pandemic has skewed my sense of scale and time. It has left me thinking about the things I miss and making work for the kiln has me asking what is missing from the accumulated body of work. The desire to fire the kiln is like a boat that is parked outside my studio with a captain who has been blowing the signal-horn. Every time I walk by our whale-shaped kiln it shouts out, waving bright flags instead of the reality of mouse nests, crickets, and spider webs. I have been checking my inner timetable. Today we opened the door, cleared out the crickets, chased the mouse away, and began to load pots. I have always loved the sea, but this whale-shaped kiln set into the hillside calls my name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"916\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20-summer-summit-21-1024x916.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20-summer-summit-21-1024x916.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20-summer-summit-21-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20-summer-summit-21-768x687.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20-summer-summit-21-1536x1374.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20-summer-summit-21-1200x1073.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20-summer-summit-21.jpg 1789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Missing The Boat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is not so much that the boat passed<br>and you failed to notice it.<br>It is more like the boat stopping<br>directly outside your bedroom window,<br>the captain blowing the signal-horn,<br>the band playing a rousing march.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The boat shouted, waving bright flags,<br>its silver hull blinding in the sunlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But you had this idea you were going by train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You kept checking the time-table,<br>digging for tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the boat got tired of you,<br>so tired it pulled up the anchor<br>and raised the ramp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The boat bobbed into the distance,<br>shrinking like a toy\u2014<br>at which point you probably realized<br>you had always loved the sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Naomi Shihab Nye, <em>Different Ways to Pray<\/em>, Breitenbush Publications, 1980<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often describe firing the wood kiln as akin to steering a large ship. It takes a long time to gain momentum, to load, and then to change direction. The pandemic has skewed my sense of scale and time. It has left me thinking about the things I miss and making work for the kiln [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garlicscape","category-solstice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","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=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}