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Saturday's Poem: Why Fool Around?
Saturday's Poem: Why Fool Around?
PoetrycynthiaMarch 31, 2012poetry, Stephen DobynsComment
Images of Spring
Images of Spring
Nature, Ranch LifecynthiaMarch 29, 2012photos, ranch life, friends, poems, Rilke, springtime, wonder, photo gallery, beauty, walks Comment
Recalibrating
Recalibrating
MemoircynthiaMarch 28, 2012family, perspective, my nephew, healing, hope, memoir, my mother, Ryan, courage Comments
Father Poems: Those Winter Sundays & Yesterday
Father Poems: Those Winter Sundays & Yesterday
Family History, PoetrycynthiaMarch 24, 2012fathers, my father, Saverio William Carbone, W.S. Merwin, Robert Hayden, poems, loss, Annie DillardComment
Saturday's Poem: A Brief for the Defense
Saturday's Poem: A Brief for the Defense
PoetrycynthiaMarch 17, 2012Jack Gilbert, poetryComment
Chocolate Buddhas
Chocolate Buddhas
Friends, MemoircynthiaMarch 16, 2012chocolate, Buddhism, Santa Barbara, candy, Margaret, eat the chocolate Comments
Saturday's Poem: Trust
Saturday's Poem: Trust
PoetrycynthiaMarch 10, 2012poetry, trust, faith, Thomas R. SmithComment
My Baja Birthday
My Baja Birthday
Friends, MemoircynthiaMarch 7, 2012birthday, cake, memories, bike friends, Baja, Steve, camping, being young Comments
The Long View
The Long View
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaMarch 4, 2012hiking, perspective, blogging, Carey, birthdays, time's passage, friends, walks, Ranch life 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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