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Only Glimpses
Only Glimpses
Travel, MemoircynthiaOctober 8, 2011brooklyn, childhood memories, carousel, Prospect Park, Grand Army Plaza, Rosario Candela, Cracker Jacks, friends Comment
From A Rooftop in Brooklyn
From A Rooftop in Brooklyn
Memoir, TravelcynthiaOctober 7, 2011travel, Brooklyn, moments, traumaComment
So How Do We Best Spend Our Days?
So How Do We Best Spend Our Days?
Commentary, FriendscynthiaOctober 5, 2011wisdom, meaning, Desiderata, trying to make sense, David Shearer, Max EhrmannComment
Field Trips
Field Trips
MemoircynthiaOctober 5, 2011travel, Los Angeles, Margaret, Bill Withers, forgiveness, wisdom, assisted living, my motherComment
Hello From The Dark Woods
Hello From The Dark Woods
Memoir, Friends, Finding HopecynthiaOctober 5, 2011Holly Mae, music, songs, worry, dark woods, Cornelia, Mr. Harbor, bike ride, Margaret, Gaviota, nature, Gaviota Peak, hikes, England, letters Comments
Thinking About New York (Two Poems)
Thinking About New York (Two Poems)
Poetry, Memoir, TravelcynthiaOctober 1, 2011New York, buildings, childhood, memories, Brooklyn, poetry, Joyce Kilmer, Robert Clairmont, subwaysComment
Where Seldom Is Heard A Discouraging Word
Where Seldom Is Heard A Discouraging Word
Friends, Ranch LifecynthiaSeptember 29, 2011friends, Genevieve, fog, Ranch life, teaching, Jacob, change, nature Comments
Wheelbarrows Are a Form of Wealth
Wheelbarrows Are a Form of Wealth
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaSeptember 26, 2011wheelbarrows, wealth, stuff, towels, life, streamlining, William Carlos Williams, bowls, towel, objectsComment
One Woman's Quiet Work
One Woman's Quiet Work
Finding Hope, Friends, MemoircynthiaSeptember 25, 2011Miki Holden, friends, teaching, retirement, Family School Comment
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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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