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A Remembrance of Miracles
A Remembrance of Miracles
Ranch LifecynthiaJanuary 3, 2009friends, walks, chanterelles, miracles, wonders, Ranch life, Jeanne, ee cummings, E.E. Cummings, teaching, anxiety dreamsComment
Too Much Excitement
Too Much Excitement
Ranch Life, MemoircynthiaDecember 17, 2008bulls, cowboys, Jeanne, friends, macadamia trees, cattle, Ranch life Comments
Remembering Inflation
Remembering Inflation
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaDecember 13, 2008bicycles, bike repairs, learning, humor Comment
Tea With Pocahontas and Other Amazing Things
Tea With Pocahontas and Other Amazing Things
MemoircynthiaDecember 10, 2008Atlanta, family visits, Christmas, travel, Rose, reading, tea with Pocahontas Comment
The Hopes and Fears of All the Years
The Hopes and Fears of All the Years
MemoircynthiaDecember 2, 2008Andy Williams Christmas specials, Christmas, holidays, childhood memories, my mother, nostalgiaComment
Saying Thank You
Saying Thank You
Friends, Memoir, Poetry, Ranch LifecynthiaNovember 27, 2008gratitude-, Thanksgiving, W-S- MerwynComment
License to Dance
License to Dance
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaNovember 19, 2008Solvang, Los Olivos., memoir, happiness, Miriam Makeba, dancing Comment
Nostalgia Saturday
Nostalgia Saturday
MemoircynthiaNovember 16, 2008Donna Hewitt, guest blogger, memorabilia Comment
Notes from Pillow Hill
Notes from Pillow Hill
Memoir, Small PleasurescynthiaNovember 8, 2008playfulness, childhood, Robert Louis Stevenson, naps, Obama Comments
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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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