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Into The Gaps
Into The Gaps
Memoir, Friends, Finding Hope, CommentaryCyn CarboneJune 20, 2025memoir, commentary, friendship, Annie Dillard, wisdom, finding hope, finding joyComment
Not Silent
Not Silent
Commentary, Finding Hope, MemoirCyn CarboneJune 15, 2025Rilke, protests, hope, Santa Barbara, memoir, poetry, ee cummings, changeComment
Snow Angel
Snow Angel
Memoir, NatureCyn CarboneJune 7, 2025memoir, ranch life, lost, wonders, nature, naps, John O'DonohueComment
Moving
Moving
Friends, Memoir, On Writing, TeachingCyn CarboneMay 31, 2025memoir, friends, moving, community, teaching, writing, wisdom, changeComment
In Motion
In Motion
Memoir, Finding Hope, CommentaryCyn CarboneMay 24, 2025commentary, memoir, nature, ranch life, hope, communityComment
A Community Gathering of Resilience, Resistance, and Hope
A Community Gathering of Resilience, Resistance, and Hope
Commentary, Finding Hope, Memoir, FriendsCyn CarboneMay 19, 2025memoir, community, hope, resistance, friends, Santa Ynez Valley Comments
Once A Day, I Cried
Once A Day, I Cried
Memoir, Friends, Finding Hope, Commentary, Ranch LifeCyn CarboneMay 9, 2025memoir, walks, friends, springtime, these days, hopeComment
The Next Move
The Next Move
Finding Hope, Poetry, Teaching, CommentaryCyn CarboneApril 26, 2025Ezra Klein, Steven Hahn, politics, history, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Stafford, teaching, change, finding hope Comment
Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday
Finding Hope, Friends, MemoirCyn CarboneApril 20, 2025Easter, Ranch life, memoir, Rilke, springtime, hope, community, Rebecca SolnitComment
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Lines and reflections Fog at play. A hike with friends...foolproof remedy for the blues. We’re fortified now. A storied old house: “Outdoors the wind./Indoors the locked heart and the lost key.” (Louis Macniece) We ran into a skeleton, a miniature mule, and Milly today. I’m obsessed. Can you blame me?! Looking out towards Gaviota Peak the fog considers a comeback best kind of welcome Ranch roads on this late summer morning... red vein veterinary lesson Well, THIS was unexpected. And this is how we are getting to know the infinitely fascinating and oh-so-faraway Felix...sigh. When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in th In a dark time the eye begins to see (Roethke) a walk adorned by swirls of fog The shy return of clouds.
“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
— Mary Oliver
 

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