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Just a Hopeful Sign
Just a Hopeful Sign
Finding Hope, Memoir, FriendscynthiaDecember 11, 2011los alamos, Vickie, church, signsComment
Seeing What Is There
Seeing What Is There
MemoircynthiaDecember 10, 2011perception, memories, Syracuse, night sky, views, wisdomComment
Yesterday
Yesterday
Ranch Life, Small Pleasures, NaturecynthiaDecember 7, 2011Gaviota, farm stand, honor box, neighborhood, Hollister Ranch, Vista de las Cruces, Gaviota Peak, hikes, photos, chanterelles, persimmons, produce, photo gallery Comments
At the Mission
At the Mission
Memoir, CommentarycynthiaDecember 4, 2011Chumash, Santa Barbara, Mission life, California history, John Johnson, Mission system, Father Junipero Serra, indigenous people, Junipero Serra, Presidio, controversy, Santa Barbara Mission, photo gallery Comment
And She Promptly Set Sail
And She Promptly Set Sail
MemoircynthiaDecember 3, 2011daughters grow up, miranda, being a mom, family, Florida Comments
And Then It Hit Me
And Then It Hit Me
Memoir, Family HistorycynthiaDecember 1, 2011rage, anger, Orange County, wisdom, Dan Gerber, Mark Twain, family history, trying to be nice Comment
Bicycle Dreams
Bicycle Dreams
Memoir, FriendscynthiaNovember 28, 2011bicycles, bikes, memoir, friends, Miranda Comments
Heaven's Vestibule
Heaven's Vestibule
Memoir, Ranch Life, Family HistorycynthiaNovember 27, 2011Thanksgiving, gratitude, family, duty, learning, trying, tragedy, wisdom, life, friends, Ranch life, my nephew Comments
After Rain
After Rain
Ranch LifecynthiaNovember 21, 2011photos, Ranch life, friends, Ryan, Carey, sycamores, rain, wonder 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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