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My Afternoon with Dorothy
My Afternoon with Dorothy
Friends, MemoircynthiaJanuary 15, 2010Dorothy, Santa Ynez Valley, getting old, advice, wisdom, earthquake Comment
Beach Walk
Beach Walk
Ranch Life, MemoircynthiaJanuary 10, 2010phots, surfing, beach walk, waves, Jeanne, walks, ranch life, low tide Comments
Animal Sightings
Animal Sightings
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaJanuary 8, 2010memoir, my mother, animals, Orange County, Newport Beach, alienation, Ranch life, coyotoes, Corona del Mar, southern CA, visiting my mother, nature Comment
Bare Roots
Bare Roots
Ranch LifecynthiaJanuary 6, 2010roses, Kelley, friends, dreams, memoir, Ranch life, wisdom Comments
Lightening Up
Lightening Up
Ranch Life, MemoircynthiaJanuary 3, 2010Czech Christmas mass, life&death, Louis MacNiece, William Stafford Comment
Turning Points
Turning Points
Memoir, Ranch Life, On WritingcynthiaDecember 29, 2009year's end, Marlene, my sister, loss, grief, Ralph and Oralee Kiewit, January, writing, Wallace Stevens, Rilke, turning points Comments
Pausing for a Trundle
Pausing for a Trundle
Ranch Life, Small Pleasures, MemoircynthiaDecember 26, 2009trundling, walks, friends, William H. Brewer, rock-rollingComment
Christmas Eve With Monte
Christmas Eve With Monte
Commentary, Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaDecember 24, 2009ChristmasComment
A Christmas Corsage
A Christmas Corsage
MemoircynthiaDecember 19, 2009brooklyn, childhood memories, Christmas, Naomi Shihab Nye 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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