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New York, Entry
New York, Entry
Memoir, TravelcynthiaDecember 5, 2009New York, Brooklyn, travel, High Line Park, young adults, Manhattan Comments
Keep an Eye Out for Green-Winged Redheads
Keep an Eye Out for Green-Winged Redheads
Friends, Ranch Life, Small PleasurescynthiaNovember 29, 2009Ranch life, pets, birds, sightingsComment
Wally? Wally Wrote Poems?
Wally? Wally Wrote Poems?
PoetrycynthiaNovember 27, 2009Wallace Stevens, Dan Gerber, RilkeComment
The Lost Art of Finding Happiness
The Lost Art of Finding Happiness
Memoir, Small PleasurescynthiaNovember 24, 2009assisted living, elder care, my mother, old people, characters, resilience, happiness, poetry, dancing, friends, coping Comment
Baboons and Periwinkles
Baboons and Periwinkles
Poetry, MemoircynthiaNovember 19, 2009Wallace Stevens, poetry, high school, memoirComment
How Morning Filled the Living Room Today
How Morning Filled the Living Room Today
FriendscynthiaNovember 16, 2009Ted Martinez, memoir, ligth, friendship, loss, faith Comments
Random Detour
Random Detour
MemoircynthiaNovember 9, 2009Miranda, Philadelphia, photosComment
Sustaining Things
Sustaining Things
On WritingcynthiaOctober 30, 2009Kim Stafford, South Coast Writing Project, Ted Martinez, friends, anniverary, Lompoc, Yosemite, anniversary Comment
Bejeweled
Bejeweled
Memoir, Small PleasurescynthiaOctober 17, 2009earrings, getting old, Facebook, jewels, mother-in-law, gifits, riches, time passes, my daughter, trinkets, heirlooms 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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