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Looking Up
Looking Up
Memoir, Nature, Ranch LifecynthiaAugust 13, 2012meteors, Perseids, shooting stars, Monte, night sky, ranch life, memoir, wonder, Perseid, Jack Kornfield, BuddhismComment
Saturday's Poem: KeepingThings Whole
Saturday's Poem: KeepingThings Whole
PoetrycynthiaAugust 11, 2012Keeping Things Whole, Mark StrandComment
Optimism
Optimism
Finding Hope, Friends, Ranch Life, Small PleasurescynthiaAugust 10, 2012memoir, Parker, Clara, Lauren, friendship, celebration, Vista de las CrucesComment
Doorway
Doorway
Friends, Ranch Life, MemoircynthiaAugust 7, 2012photography, Mike Hewitt, mystery, doorway, portal, image, Ranch life Comments
Summer Moments
Summer Moments
Friends, Ranch Life, Small PleasurescynthiaAugust 5, 2012lemonade, Mike and Donna, beach, dragon fruit, Jeanne, friends, walks, photos, moments, Mars, photo gallery, Steiff monkey, Ranch life, Mars landingComment
Saturday's Poem: Footprints
Saturday's Poem: Footprints
Poetry, Ranch LifecynthiaJuly 28, 2012Andy Neumann, footprints, poetry, Hollister Ranch, childhoodComment
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
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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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