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If There Be Any Virtue
If There Be Any Virtue
Friends, Memoir, On Writing, TeachingcynthiaSeptember 23, 2011Jack Phreaner, South Coast Writing Project, teaching, writing, UCSB, obituaryComment
A House for Sale: Well-Used
A House for Sale: Well-Used
Memoir, Family HistorycynthiaSeptember 18, 2011John Ward, loss, grief, death, memories, family, Nancy Ward Comment
Haircut
Haircut
Memoir, TravelcynthiaSeptember 11, 2011barber shop, photo, father and son, San Diego, memoir, San Clemente, random photos Comments
No Matter What You Think, I've Always Loved You
No Matter What You Think, I've Always Loved You
Memoir, FriendscynthiaSeptember 11, 2011maya angelou, cyd, trains, humor, friendship, train travel Comments
Ten Years
Ten Years
Commentary, MemoircynthiaSeptember 7, 20119/11, commentary Comments
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
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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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