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Christmas Ornaments
Christmas Ornaments
MemoircynthiaDecember 26, 2007 Comment
Winter Solstice
Winter Solstice
MemoircynthiaDecember 23, 2007Comment
The Lost Day
The Lost Day
Memoir, Small Pleasures, Finding HopecynthiaDecember 14, 2007headachese, Boston, Miranda, blizzards, winter, joy, comfort, optimism, meteor showerComment
Sky Watcher
Sky Watcher
MemoircynthiaDecember 12, 2007meteors, friends, Donna Hewitt, Teresa, Brooklyn, childhood memories, stars, Chris Culver Comments
Big Wind. Big Surf. Hang On. Whee!
Big Wind. Big Surf. Hang On. Whee!
Ranch Life, MemoircynthiaDecember 6, 2007surfing, California, reading the sea, wind, waves, Leonard Cohen, Ray Kunze, Andy Neumann, intermittent reinforcement Comments
The Everything’s Not Shit Virtual World Tour
The Everything’s Not Shit Virtual World Tour
Commentary, Memoir, Books and publicationscynthiaDecember 4, 2007Steve Stack, guest blogger, Everything's Not Shit Comment
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
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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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