{"id":748,"date":"2023-06-06T20:23:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T00:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=748"},"modified":"2023-06-06T20:24:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T00:24:54","slug":"6-summer-shards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2023\/06\/06\/6-summer-shards\/","title":{"rendered":"#6 summer shards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes I head into the garden thinking the project\u00a0will be putting seedlings in the ground or weeding out all the invasive grasses, but instead I focus on the movement of the mustard, or the fallen poppy petals, the bluebird fledglings, or the cardinal beating himself up against the mirrors on our car. I am impressed by the ingenuity of the weeds and the generosity of the natural world. I am embarrassed by how weedy my fenced plot is. I will not show it to you, but I gather blossoms and shoots, peas and dandelions. I am full of intentions, artistic visions, and forgiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"659\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/06-summer-23-1024x659.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/06-summer-23-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/06-summer-23-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/06-summer-23-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/06-summer-23-1536x988.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/06-summer-23-2048x1318.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/06-summer-23-1200x772.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/06-summer-23-1980x1274.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Poppy petals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let the subject\u00a0be<br>     the movement of the goldenrod, the\u00a0mustard,<br>     the cardinal, the jay, the\u00a0generosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want anything,<br>not even to show it to&nbsp;you\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">     the beak grass, bottlebrush, dandelion seed\u00a0head,\u00a0<br>     parachute and crown,<br>     all the intention of wishes,\u00a0forgiveness,<br><br>this day\u2019s singular existence in time,<br>the native field flourishing selfishly, only for\u00a0itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;Ada Limon, excerpt from <em>The Rewilding<\/em>, in Bright Dead Things, Milkweed Editions, 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I head into the garden thinking the project\u00a0will be putting seedlings in the ground or weeding out all the invasive grasses, but instead I focus on the movement of the mustard, or the fallen poppy petals, the bluebird fledglings, or the cardinal beating himself up against the mirrors on our car. I am impressed [&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-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","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=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}