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Just Waiting...and Watching
Just Waiting...and Watching
Memoir, TravelcynthiaJuly 26, 2012photo gallery, Florida, Georgia, Italy, candid shots, waiting, San Francisco Comments
Getting Along
Getting Along
Memoir, TravelcynthiaJuly 25, 2012Guadalupe, cemetery, oral history, local history, Davy BrownComment
Family Stories (A Poem)
Family Stories (A Poem)
Poetry, Memoir, Family HistorycynthiaJuly 22, 2012family, family history, poems, Dorianne Laux, memoir, Garrison Keillor Comments
"The Wildest Pass I Have Yet Seen Here"
"The Wildest Pass I Have Yet Seen Here"
TravelcynthiaJuly 19, 2012Gaviota Comments
Thorns and Flowers
Thorns and Flowers
Finding Hope, Memoir, PoetrycynthiaJuly 14, 20121950s, fathers, friends, Rumi, Jack Kornfield, dreams, yearning, my father, Junior Brown Comments
Maybe Once In A Lifetime Chance
Maybe Once In A Lifetime Chance
Memoir, FriendscynthiaJuly 11, 2012Guadalupe, Japanese-American, Kam Jacoby, Masatani, Harry Masatani, wisdom, World War II, Japanese internment, stories, California history Comments
Saturday's Poem: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —
Saturday's Poem: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —
Finding Hope, PoetrycynthiaJuly 7, 2012physics, Emily Dickinson, brilliant minds, Robert Wright, Dan Gerber, Higgs Boson Comment
Christine's Green Island
Christine's Green Island
Friends, MemoircynthiaJuly 3, 2012bicycles, dogs, friends, Chris Culver, VW BusesComment
"We Had Kids."
"We Had Kids."
Friends, Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaJuly 1, 2012daughters grow up, friends, growing up, Miranda, friendship, Ranch life, time's passage, Martin Amis, trying to make sense, daughters growing up, life wisdom, getting older, photos Comment
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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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