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Saturday's Poem: Requiem
Saturday's Poem: Requiem
PoetrycynthiaApril 2, 2011Requiem, Abigail Gramig, perfect day, poetry, perfectionComment
My Daddy’s Centennial
My Daddy’s Centennial
Family History, MemoircynthiaMarch 29, 2011childhood memories, fathers, growing up, Saverio William Carbone, New York, Triangle Shirt Factory, airplanes, 1911, butterfly tray, brooklyn, history, Brooklyn, Centennial, Daddy, my father Comments
Saturday's Poem: all that
Saturday's Poem: all that
PoetrycynthiaMarch 26, 2011Charles Bukowski, New York, poetry, Brooklyn, childhood memories, my father, CentennialComment
Braver Than You Thought
Braver Than You Thought
MemoircynthiaMarch 25, 2011overcoming fears, my mother, understanding, memoir, bravery Comment
Saturday's Poem: The Best of It
Saturday's Poem: The Best of It
PoetrycynthiaMarch 18, 2011Kay Ryan, poetry, poem, The Best of IT, simplicity Comments
Il Vento
Il Vento
Ranch Life, MemoircynthiaMarch 13, 2011wind, bulls, bicycles, riding, ranch life, cattle, vulnerability, memoir Comments
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
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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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