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The Featherberry Girl: A Fable
The Featherberry Girl: A Fable
MemoircynthiaJuly 8, 20111970s, growing up, Madison, Chicago, stories Comments
Still on the Subject of Trains...The Red Caboose
Still on the Subject of Trains...The Red Caboose
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaJuly 5, 2011trains, Countee Cullen, poetry, Jeanne, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Southern Pacific, Pacific Surfliner, Ranch life, caboose, racismComment
Trains Again. This Time A True Tale by David Shearer
Trains Again. This Time A True Tale by David Shearer
Memoir, FriendscynthiaJuly 4, 2011David Shearer, Cuesta Ridge, San Luis Obispo, trains, guest bloggerComment
Saturday's Poem: Trains
Saturday's Poem: Trains
PoetrycynthiaJuly 2, 2011David Shumate, Trains Comments
The Babysitter
The Babysitter
MemoircynthiaJune 29, 2011memoir, 1960s Long Island, babysitting, teenage years, friends, Rosemary Comments
Saturday's Poem: Talk About Walking
Saturday's Poem: Talk About Walking
PoetrycynthiaJune 25, 2011poetry, walking, Philip Booth, wandering, walksComment
These Days, Those Days
These Days, Those Days
Travel, MemoircynthiaJune 21, 2011England, Wales, River Wye, Devon, Little Tew, poppies, Brecon Breacons, walks, then and now, Photo gallery, Geoff Dyer, books, Great Tew, Brecon Beacons, hikesComment
Welcome Home
Welcome Home
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaJune 19, 2011rodents, rats, nature, ranch life, return from travel, former stuents Comments
Call Me Inappropriate
Call Me Inappropriate
Memoir, TravelcynthiaJune 14, 2011daughters growing up, mothers and daughters, Berlin, travel, Cornelia, memoir 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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