{"id":978,"date":"2024-06-17T21:11:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T01:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=978"},"modified":"2024-06-17T21:13:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T01:13:12","slug":"17-summer-shards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2024\/06\/17\/17-summer-shards-2\/","title":{"rendered":"#17 summer shards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garlic was harvested today, although not the pictured garlic. Cosmos seedlings planted, other plants watered, holes dug. Through all the process our job is to see beauty as well as the potential of how things can go terribly wrong. Life with a toddler is to love and be loved. It is also to find patience you never knew you could muster. There is such simple joy, beauty, power, emotion, strength, energy and exhaustion. We try to understand the perspective of the child, we watch, we empathize with the parents, we remember, and we imagine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17-summer-24-1-1024x590.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17-summer-24-1-1024x590.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17-summer-24-1-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17-summer-24-1-768x443.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17-summer-24-1-1536x885.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17-summer-24-1-2048x1180.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17-summer-24-1-1200x692.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/17-summer-24-1-1980x1141.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To love. To be loved. To never forget\u00a0\u2028your own insignificance. To never get used\u00a0\u2028to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar\u00a0\u2028disparity of life around you. To seek joy\u00a0\u2028in the saddest places. To pursue beauty\u00a0\u2028to its lair. To never simplify what is\u00a0\u2028complicated or complicate what is simple.\u00a0\u2028To respect strength, never power. Above all,\u00a0\u2028to watch. To try and understand. To never\u00a0\u2028look away. And never, never to forget.\u2028\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;Arundhati Roy, from <em>The Cost of Living<\/em>,\u00a0\u2028Modern Library, 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garlic was harvested today, although not the pictured garlic. Cosmos seedlings planted, other plants watered, holes dug. Through all the process our job is to see beauty as well as the potential of how things can go terribly wrong. Life with a toddler is to love and be loved. It is also to find patience [&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-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","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=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}