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Finding Hope, MemoircynthiaNovember 12, 2011memoir, friends, safety, getting lost, dreams, Andy, home, security, Monte, Los Angeles Comments
An October Not Quite Over
An October Not Quite Over
Finding Hope, Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaOctober 29, 2011Robert Creeley, Chicago, Gaviota, Ranch life, memories, October Comment
Taking My Own Advice
Taking My Own Advice
Finding Hope, MemoircynthiaOctober 27, 2011bike ride, Santa Ynez Valley, coping, Bach, Simone Dinnerstein, hope Comment
A Couple of Poems by Marie Howe
A Couple of Poems by Marie Howe
Poetry, MemoircynthiaOctober 22, 2011Marie Howe, Poetry, The Moment, PrayerComment
More Glimpses
More Glimpses
Travel, MemoircynthiaOctober 20, 2011photography, New York, Brooklyn, Prospect Park, street scenes, friends, photo gallery, prospect park Comments
Life Support
Life Support
Memoir, Finding Hope, Family HistorycynthiaOctober 20, 2011family, coping, tragedy, life, my nephew, writing, learning, Dan, Ryan, my sister Comments
The Burden of A Rose
The Burden of A Rose
Memoir, TravelcynthiaOctober 20, 2011brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Lee Mingwei, New York, Pierrepont Street, dispatch of duty, memoirComment
Neighborhoods
Neighborhoods
Memoir, TravelcynthiaOctober 11, 2011brooklyn, childhood, childhood memories, photos, Coney Island Avenue, details, subway, P.S. 179, Vickie, Flatbush, memories Comment
Coney Island
Coney Island
Memoir, Travel, Family HistorycynthiaOctober 10, 2011brooklyn, images, Coney Island, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Brooklyn, childhood, memoir 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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