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The Angels Are Older
The Angels Are Older
Friends, Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaNovember 20, 2011Gaviota, Jackson Browne, Vista de las Cruces, friends Comments
The Key
The Key
Memoir, Friends, Family HistorycynthiaNovember 16, 2011grief, worry, friends, wisdom, family, memoir, humor, motel keys, Los Alamos, Vickie, Cornelia, Carey, Ranch life, community, Kit, Joey Ramone, getting older, keys Comments
Addendum
Addendum
Friends, MemoircynthiaNovember 15, 2011portrait, painting, Kit, Wallace StevensComment
Picture This
Picture This
Friends, Ranch LifecynthiaNovember 15, 2011art, Kit, painting, portrait, friends, ranch life Comment
Taking A Break
Taking A Break
Ranch Life, MemoircynthiaNovember 14, 2011photos, photo gallery, Ranch life, beauty, wonderComment
Safe
Safe
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
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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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