{"id":428,"date":"2021-12-02T21:13:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T02:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=428"},"modified":"2021-12-02T21:18:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T02:18:20","slug":"2-decembrance-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2021\/12\/02\/2-decembrance-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"#2 decembrance 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I took my dog walk with Luna a bit early today. We had been to visit a friend in Fredericksburg and I needed to stretch my legs. The air was warm and the clouds grey on one side of the sky and the sun low on the other side. The trees were stark against the dark clouds, shadows rippled through the neighbor&#8217;s pasture, the pale green of a hillside was reflected in a still pond. As I tried to capture something of the moment in a photo, a group of five swans flashed bright against the dark clouds. Everything felt interconnected\u2014the swans contrasted against the dark sky, resurrecting my memory of the family of swans that nested on our pond this year. All linked together\u2014the moment, the memory and the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking of memory, we have been digging through our archive of photos. First I sought images of my pregnant body for Zoe as she moved through her own pregnancy. Then I&#8217;m amassing pictures of her as a newborn to discern family resemblances with her son Larkin. Most recently we are gathering photographic evidence of our long friendship with Mikio Shinagawa who recently passed away. He was a true friend, mentor, a great connector and encourager in our life. These deep dives in images and memories remind me of the interconnectedness of our neighbors, ancestors, landscape, food and artwork. Mikio always tried to remind us of our connections, in New York, Virginia, Maine, Japan and beyond. While we often looked to our past, Mikio always asked us to look toward the children of our future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"632\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/02-decembrance-21-1024x632.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/02-decembrance-21-1024x632.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/02-decembrance-21-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/02-decembrance-21-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/02-decembrance-21-1536x948.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/02-decembrance-21-2048x1265.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/02-decembrance-21-1200x741.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/02-decembrance-21-1980x1223.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Q: What do you hope readers will take away from\u00a0<em>Cloud Cuckoo Land<\/em>?<br><br>A:\u00a0I hope readers are reminded of our myriad interconnections: with our ancestors, with our neighbors, with other species, with all the kids yet to be born. I believe that the more we can remember how much we\u2019re all in the same boat\u2014the more we can train ourselves to imagine, recognize, and remember our connections\u2014with the bacteria in our guts, the birds outside our windows, the meals on our plates, and the children in our futures\u2014the better off we\u2019ll be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;Anthony Doerr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took my dog walk with Luna a bit early today. We had been to visit a friend in Fredericksburg and I needed to stretch my legs. The air was warm and the clouds grey on one side of the sky and the sun low on the other side. 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