{"id":965,"date":"2024-06-14T20:26:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T00:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=965"},"modified":"2024-06-14T20:26:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T00:26:16","slug":"14-summer-shards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2024\/06\/14\/14-summer-shards-2\/","title":{"rendered":"#14 summer shards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tonight, as we were saying goodbye at a weekend sale of paintings and other crafts I was introduced to another woman with the line, “do you know each other.” In fact, I did remember where and when we had met last fall and where she currently lives. These days my memory is like swiss cheese. I can be on solid ground remembering the names of esoteric Japanese potters and then I fall through a hole forgetting the name of my good friend’s daughter. But I also remember arguing with my mother in seventh grade when she would not let me go see the musical Hair<\/em>. She said to me, “these are not the important things; you will not remember this.” But of course I do. Where now do I put this memory down, because of course she was right; it was not the important fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?
She shifted to a question about airports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

–Anne Carson, from The Glass Essay; Whacher<\/a><\/em>, (starting line 84) in “Glass, Irony, and God,” New Directions Press, 1995<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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