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Things That Washed into the Creek
Things That Washed into the Creek
Memoir, Ranch Life, FriendscynthiaMarch 4, 2011birthdays, turning 60, friends, gratitude, writing, implausibility, childhood friends, birthday Comments
Listen Until the Flute Stops: An Evening with W.S. Merwin
Listen Until the Flute Stops: An Evening with W.S. Merwin
Poetry, MemoircynthiaFebruary 23, 2011memoir, WS Merwin, meeting Merwin, poetry, Santa Barbara, poetry reading, Barry Spacks, Nomad FluteComment
A Circle
A Circle
Ranch LifecynthiaFebruary 17, 2011surfing, memorial, Lee Harrington, paddle-out, friendsComment
Remembering Lee
Remembering Lee
Friends, Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaFebruary 11, 2011Lee Harrington, friends, passages, Gaviota, neighbors, Ranch life Comment
Saturday's Poem: Change
Saturday's Poem: Change
PoetrycynthiaJanuary 22, 2011poetry, change, Louis JenkinsComment
Tempered Craziness
Tempered Craziness
CommentarycynthiaJanuary 21, 2011Jaron Lanier, technology, UCSB College of Creative Studies, information, humanism, craziness, computersComment
Rock It
Rock It
Ranch LifecynthiaJanuary 20, 2011launch, Vandenberg, Ranch life, inaugural day, memoirComment
Every Day Is A God
Every Day Is A God
Memoir, Friends, Books and publicationscynthiaJanuary 19, 2011Ranch life, Vickie, Dorothy, friends, Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm, heart's slow turning, awareness Comments
Vacated Guest Room
Vacated Guest Room
MemoircynthiaJanuary 17, 2011writing, good-byes, daughter, ranch life, holiday visit 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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