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By the Way
By the Way
Nature, Ranch LifecynthiaMay 20, 2012ranch life, wildlife, snapshot, glimpses, beauty, egretComment
Eclipse
Eclipse
Nature, Ranch LifecynthiaMay 20, 2012light, views, Gaviota, ranch, eclipse, wonders, SteveComment
What Life Decided to Offer
What Life Decided to Offer
Friends, MemoircynthiaMay 20, 2012wisdom, friendship, stories, T.S. Eliot, life wisdomComment
Saturday's Poem: One of the Butterflies
Saturday's Poem: One of the Butterflies
PoetrycynthiaMay 19, 2012Merwin, poetry, pleasure, butterfliesComment
Wind Tunnel
Wind Tunnel
Ranch Life, Memoir, Family HistorycynthiaMay 18, 2012Gaviota, wind, Ranch life, Gaviota Pass, Jane Hollister Wheelwright Comments
On Travel, Technology, Kindness: An Evening with Pico Iyer
On Travel, Technology, Kindness: An Evening with Pico Iyer
Commentary, On Writing, TravelcynthiaMay 17, 2012Pico Iyer, wisdom, Santa Barbara, travel Comment
Young Ones, Take Heart
Young Ones, Take Heart
Friends, MemoircynthiaMay 15, 2012youth, being young, memoirs, Joan Baez, Diamonds and Rust, Ming, friends, wisdom, hopeComment
How Much the Heart Can Hold
How Much the Heart Can Hold
Friends, Memoir, Poetry, Small PleasurescynthiaMay 15, 2012Gaviota, friends, Lori and Michael, Dan Gerber, loveComment
Whiplash. Detour.
Whiplash. Detour.
MemoircynthiaMay 7, 20121960s Long Island, fiction, Long Island 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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