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Reclamation
Reclamation
MemoircynthiaSeptember 12, 2009growing up, Mickey Mouse, thrift stores Comments
Short September Walk
Short September Walk
Nature, Ranch LifecynthiaSeptember 10, 2009walks, snakeskin Comments
Shifting Light
Shifting Light
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaSeptember 8, 2009light, memories, time's passage, childhood, dreams, Camus, Pico Iyer, gtatitude Comments
By the Sea
By the Sea
Nature, Ranch Life, Friends, Small PleasurescynthiaAugust 31, 2009ee cummings, poem, Marc Kummel, friends, by the sea, memoir, Gaviota, aging, picnic, old friends Comment
This Week
This Week
Commentary, Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaAugust 29, 2009Ted Kennedy, ranch life, coyotes, planets, politics, loss, being human, writing letters, redemption Comment
When In Doubt, Make Ice Cream
When In Doubt, Make Ice Cream
Friends, Ranch Life, Small PleasurescynthiaAugust 24, 2009ice cream socials, jeanne, the neighborhood, ice cream, friends, summer, Garrison Keillor, miracles, Ranch life, joy, ice cream social, coping Comments
Weathering It
Weathering It
MemoircynthiaAugust 16, 2009friendship, Tibet, India, my mother, hiking, cuisine, helping, fire, philanthropy, finding hopeComment
Undone
Undone
MemoircynthiaAugust 7, 2009aging, care of elderly, elderly parents, life&death, Camus, absurdity, wisdom Comments
Snow Cones Squared: The Joys of Granita
Snow Cones Squared: The Joys of Granita
Small Pleasures, MemoircynthiaJuly 29, 2009granita, Naomi Shihab Nye, Mint Snowball, ice cream, Naples, memoir, recipeComment
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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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