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Laying Low on Labor Day
Laying Low on Labor Day
Ranch Life, Friends, MemoircynthiaSeptember 4, 2011images, photo gallery, ranch life, beauty, nature, walks, summer, summer's end, lazy and slow Comments
Saturday's Poem: Although the Wind...
Saturday's Poem: Although the Wind...
Poetry, Finding HopecynthiaSeptember 3, 2011wind, Izumi Shikibu, Jane Hirshfield, beautyComment
Saturday's Poem: The Storm
Saturday's Poem: The Storm
Poetry, MemoircynthiaAugust 27, 2011memoir, poetry, Hurricane Donna, childhood, Theodore Roethke, hurricanes, Hurricane Irene Comment
Saturday's Poem: Poetry
Saturday's Poem: Poetry
PoetrycynthiaAugust 20, 2011William Stafford, poetry, Edward MunchComment
This Creek In Particular
This Creek In Particular
Ranch Life, Memoir, NaturecynthiaAugust 17, 2011Sacate, Ranch, creek, geology, landscape, history, Gaviota, nature, Ranch history, Sacate CreekComment
Saturday's Poem: Halley's Comet
Saturday's Poem: Halley's Comet
Poetry, MemoircynthiaAugust 13, 2011Halley's Comet, poetry, Stanley Kunitz, my little brother, my brother, childhoodComment
One Day She Saw It From Above
One Day She Saw It From Above
MemoircynthiaAugust 7, 2011Long Island, airplane, 1960s Long Island, memoir, Cessna, Great South Bay, Fire Island, Connetquot River, Nicoll Bay, my house Comment
Saturday's Poem: Living By Kindness
Saturday's Poem: Living By Kindness
PoetrycynthiaJuly 15, 2011Kim Stafford, kindness Comments
City Kids, Brooklyn Streets
City Kids, Brooklyn Streets
MemoircynthiaJuly 14, 2011brooklyn, childhood memories, fear, P.S. 179, Flatbush Avenue, Woolworth's, predators, danger, vulnerability 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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