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Vignettes
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Ranch Life, Memoir, FriendscynthiaMay 14, 2011photo gallery, Ranch life, friends, walks, Dave Jensen, I love my life, Eddy Arnold, My Antonia, Willa Cather, Jeanne, Mr. Harbor, mail, Kelley, rattlesnakes, folk songs Comments
Saturday's Poem: Looking at Pictures...
Saturday's Poem: Looking at Pictures...
PoetrycynthiaMay 14, 2011Gary Snyder, poetry, Looking At Pictures, Marlene, love, memories, loss, my sister Comments
Saturday's Poem: The Thing Is
Saturday's Poem: The Thing Is
Poetry, Friends, MemoircynthiaMay 6, 2011poetry, grief, loss, life, Ellen Bass, The Thing Is, friendsComment
The Dreamy Moon That Followed Me
The Dreamy Moon That Followed Me
MemoircynthiaMay 2, 2011Madison, artifacts, necklace, 1970s, Barack Obama, technology Comments
Saturday's Poem: When You Are Old
Saturday's Poem: When You Are Old
PoetrycynthiaApril 30, 2011Yeats, getting old, poemsComment
Easter Walk
Easter Walk
Memoir, NaturecynthiaApril 25, 2011childhood, Gaviota, hiking, springtime, Gaviota Peak, friendsComment
Saturday’s Poem: A Ritual to Read to Each Other
Saturday’s Poem: A Ritual to Read to Each Other
PoetrycynthiaApril 23, 2011William Stafford, The Way It Is, a favorite Comments
I Would Take You Anywhere, Even Oxnard
I Would Take You Anywhere, Even Oxnard
MemoircynthiaApril 17, 2011childhood, Miranda, daughters, childhoo, parenting, animal lovers, fantasies, Oxnard, Oxford Comments
Saturday's Poem(s): Revisiting Emily Dickinson...and Some Poetry in Lotion
Saturday's Poem(s): Revisiting Emily Dickinson...and Some Poetry in Lotion
Poetry, FriendscynthiaApril 16, 2011Emily Dickinson, George Chopping, poetry, remorse, books, hummingbirdsComment
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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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