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The Best Parts of Today: (In Which the Persimmon Achieves a Kind of Immortality)
The Best Parts of Today: (In Which the Persimmon Achieves a Kind of Immortality)
Small PleasurescynthiaDecember 3, 2007wonder, daughters, persmimmons, Jacquie PhelanComment
Being Cindy: Rose-Colored Glasses in Orange County
Being Cindy: Rose-Colored Glasses in Orange County
Small Pleasures, MemoircynthiaNovember 30, 2007wonders, small pleasures, optimism, finding beauty, Orange County, Santa Ana Comment
Hiding
Hiding
MemoircynthiaNovember 25, 2007hiding, childhood, memories Comment
A Walk to the Well
A Walk to the Well
Ranch LifecynthiaNovember 22, 2007well, water, off the grid, Ranch life, ThanksgivingComment
Gratitude
Gratitude
MemoircynthiaNovember 17, 2007Thanksgiving, gratitude, family history, regret, learning, family religion, guilt, my father Comment
Sure, Might’s Well Git It Over With
Sure, Might’s Well Git It Over With
MemoircynthiaNovember 13, 2007childhood, plays, St. Mark's Comment
An Interim Day (But Aren’t They All?)
An Interim Day (But Aren’t They All?)
Memoir, On WritingcynthiaNovember 12, 2007Delta Queen, Mississippi River, Annie DillardComment
Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage
MemoircynthiaNovember 11, 2007The Mississippi, memoir, Mark Twain, Huck Finn, Mississippi River, riverboats, midwest, Illinois, Iowa, Interstate 80Comment
3:54 a.m.
3:54 a.m.
MemoircynthiaNovember 11, 2007insomnia, reflections, Eddie, mother, orange juice, Tom StoppardComment
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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 Ranch roads on this late summer morning... red vein veterinary lesson best kind of welcome 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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