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Direction
Direction
Friends, MemoircynthiaNovember 7, 2010meditation, Buddhism, Kimberley Snow, Barry Spacks, getting lost, hiking, friends, Midland, Los Olivos Comments
Saturday's Poem: Autumn
Saturday's Poem: Autumn
PoetrycynthiaNovember 5, 2010Autumn, Linda Pastan, poemComment
Give ‘Em Some Heat
Give ‘Em Some Heat
Commentary, Ranch LifecynthiaNovember 4, 2010Ranch life, cattle, writing, wisdom Comments
A Poem About Blessings (for Someone I Love)
A Poem About Blessings (for Someone I Love)
Poetry, MemoircynthiaOctober 30, 2010Monte, The Blessing of the Old Woman, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, birthdays, love, gratitude, poetry Comments
Saturday’s Poem: Courage
Saturday’s Poem: Courage
PoetrycynthiaOctober 23, 2010courage, poetry, Anne SextonComment
In Denial
In Denial
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaOctober 21, 2010bike rides, political commentary, spmgs.Vam, songs, Van Morrison, Tom Petty, Jane Holliser Wheelwright, ranch life, kindness, small pleasures Comments
I Have Been To Istanbul
I Have Been To Istanbul
Travel, MemoircynthiaOctober 15, 2010Istanbul, Constantinople, Sufi, Bosphorus, Chora Church Kariye, Topkapi Palace, simit, spice bazaar, evil eye, mosque, Hagia Sophia', photos, photo gallery, Byzantium, Turkey Comments
Transition Zone
Transition Zone
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaOctober 12, 2010death, John Ward, ranch life, travel, Turkey, readjusting, loss, tranistion, my father Comment
Love Well What Thou Must Leave Ere Long
Love Well What Thou Must Leave Ere Long
Memoir, TravelcynthiaOctober 7, 2010memoir, travel, Istanbul, loss, Monte's brother, tourist, loneliness, Turkey, Wordsworth, Sea of Marmara, Bosphorus, Hagia Sophia, England, identity, sufi, Shakespeare 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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