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Saturday's Poem: The Summer
Saturday's Poem: The Summer
PoetrycynthiaSeptember 2, 2012Merwin, summer, Rothko Comments
Brothers
Brothers
MemoircynthiaAugust 27, 2012Guadalupe, Harry Masatani, Bindo Grasso, World War II, Japanese internment, local history, friendshipComment
CommentarycynthiaAugust 26, 2012Comment
We Learned What Was Important
We Learned What Was Important
MemoircynthiaAugust 24, 2012Guadalupe, Betty Jo, oral history, California history, memoires, stories, local history, Kam Jacoby, memories, interviewsComment
Nostalgie
Nostalgie
Memoir, TravelcynthiaAugust 24, 2012Laguna Beach, Nostalgia, Corona del Mar, Orange County CA, nostalgia, memoir, photos, memoirs, looking back, elder care, Orange County, 1980s, Parisian lady, Donna, Teresa, friends, changes Comment
In the Dark Morning
In the Dark Morning
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaAugust 16, 2012Mike Hewitt, mystery, Cyn, photo, a favorite photo, insomnia, friends Comments
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
Newer Older
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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