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Afternoon Walk on A Blustery Day
Afternoon Walk on A Blustery Day
Ranch Life, Memoir, FriendscynthiaFebruary 12, 2012walk, friends, Ranch life, memoirComment
Saturday's Poems: The Subject is Love
Saturday's Poems: The Subject is Love
PoetrycynthiaFebruary 10, 2012poetry, Ted Kooser, Tony HoaglandComment
Extreme Sisyphus
Extreme Sisyphus
Finding Hope, MemoircynthiaFebruary 7, 2012humor, New Yorker cartoon, Sisyphus, futility, memoir Comment
Making Life Less Difficult
Making Life Less Difficult
Friends, MemoircynthiaFebruary 6, 2012friends, Besties, Thai food, Lompoc, Vickie, CorneliaComment
Bus Station
Bus Station
Memoir, PoetrycynthiaFebruary 6, 2012Greyhound bus, 1970s, poem, Santa Barbara, feeling lost Comments
Saturday's Poem: What Isn't Mine
Saturday's Poem: What Isn't Mine
PoetrycynthiaFebruary 3, 2012Veronica Patterson, What Isn't Mine, possessionComment
The Right Kind of Mail
The Right Kind of Mail
Memoir, Finding Hope, Family HistorycynthiaFebruary 2, 2012family, Rose, niece, Groundhog Day, memoir, art, children, mail Comments
Thirty Years
Thirty Years
Memoir, FriendscynthiaJanuary 31, 2012memoir, my migration, Orange County, Groundhog Day, friends, friendshipComment
Affirmation
Affirmation
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaJanuary 29, 2012hard times, journeys, Ranch life, branding, cattle ranch, memoir 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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