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The Week In Quick Review
The Week In Quick Review
Ranch Life, MemoircynthiaAugust 29, 2010ranch, memoir, events, characters Comments
Saturday's Poem: People Who Eat in Coffee Shops
Saturday's Poem: People Who Eat in Coffee Shops
Poetry, MemoircynthiaAugust 27, 2010New York, memoir, coffee shops, Edward Field, dinersComment
Just Pausing for a Moment to Notice
Just Pausing for a Moment to Notice
Nature, Ranch LifecynthiaAugust 26, 2010memoir, summer, fofComment
Fifty-Nine
Fifty-Nine
MemoircynthiaAugust 22, 2010wisdom, getting older, John Comer, artist, Boomers, Vietnam Comments
Saturday's Poem: Often I Imagine the Earth
Saturday's Poem: Often I Imagine the Earth
PoetrycynthiaAugust 20, 2010Dan Gerber, Often I Imagine, helping each otherComment
Mahalo: Part Three: (Onward to Kauai)
Mahalo: Part Three: (Onward to Kauai)
Travel, Memoir, FriendscynthiaAugust 19, 2010travel, photo gallery, Hawaii, Kauai, Na Pali Coast, Linette, story talk, Hanapepe, Waimea Canyon, bookstores, hikes, Kalalau Trail, Hanalei, Pidgin, Chinese immigrants, agreeable torpor Comment
Hanging Loose in Haleiwa
Hanging Loose in Haleiwa
Travel, Memoir, FriendscynthiaAugust 18, 2010Hawaii, memoir, travel, photos Comments
Swimming with Audrey
Swimming with Audrey
Travel, Memoir, FriendscynthiaAugust 17, 2010Audrey Sutherland, North Shore, Hawaii, travel, friends, swimming lesson, being brave, Alaska, kayaking, Jeanne, water Comments
Making Leis
Making Leis
TravelcynthiaAugust 15, 2010Hawaii, Linette, friends, memories, fathers, leis, traditionsComment
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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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