{"id":698,"date":"2022-12-15T20:34:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T01:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=698"},"modified":"2022-12-15T20:34:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T01:34:39","slug":"decembrance-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2022\/12\/15\/decembrance-15\/","title":{"rendered":"decembrance #15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We drove home from New York City today. It was a rainy drive with limited visibility. We were happy to arrive back in our local landscape despite the wet, icy view. After a couch nap in the gray light I walked the dog in the icy mist. Often when I return from the city  it feels like I have shifted time zones. Today it felt like a different sound-scape. Dripping branches and the beating wings of the pond&#8217;s diving ducks accompanied my damp walk. I remember years ago coming home after a New York trip and being surprised during the dark dog walk to hear the sound of a beaver chewing the bark of a tree. I think of myself as a city kid who carries the silence of the country. Today I carried the light of my city friendships in the quiet of my  more rural life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"985\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/15-2022-decembrance-985x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/15-2022-decembrance-985x1024.jpg 985w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/15-2022-decembrance-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/15-2022-decembrance-768x798.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/15-2022-decembrance-1477x1536.jpg 1477w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/15-2022-decembrance-1200x1248.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/15-2022-decembrance.jpg 1539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 985px) 100vw, 985px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>There is a Light in Me<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether in daytime or in nighttime<br>I always carry inside<br>a light.<br>In the middle of noise and turmoil<br>I carry silence.<br>Always<br>I carry light and silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;Anna Swir, in Talking To My Body, co-translated by  Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz and Leonard Nathan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coppercanyonpress.org\/books\/talking-to-my-body-by-anna-swir-tr-czeslaw-milosz-leonard-nathan\/\">Copper  Canyon Press<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We drove home from New York City today. It was a rainy drive with limited visibility. We were happy to arrive back in our local landscape despite the wet, icy view. After a couch nap in the gray light I walked the dog in the icy mist. Often when I return from the city it [&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":[8],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas","tag-decembrance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","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=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}