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One Old Verb in the Lock Turning
One Old Verb in the Lock Turning
Commentary, Finding Hope, Memoir, PoetrycynthiaNovember 4, 2012politics, commentary, Obama, elections, William Carlos Williams, W.S. Merwin, optimism, poetry, Hurricane Sandy, Bob Isaacson Comments
Berlin Again: A Few More Images
Berlin Again: A Few More Images
TravelcynthiaNovember 4, 2012Berlin, photo gallery, images of BerlinComment
Berlin...Rather Quickly
Berlin...Rather Quickly
Travel, Friends, MemoircynthiaOctober 27, 2012Berlin, travel, Germany, Kreuzberg, Charlottenburg, Cornelia, friend, memoir, supermarkets, history, Holocaust Memorial, sightseeingComment
Saturday's Poem: Heifer Calving
Saturday's Poem: Heifer Calving
PoetrycynthiaOctober 27, 2012Bob Isaacson, ranch lifeComment
Saturday's Poem: Somewhere in the World
Saturday's Poem: Somewhere in the World
PoetrycynthiaOctober 20, 2012Linda Pastan, poetryComment
Meanderings About the Daughter and Other Complexities
Meanderings About the Daughter and Other Complexities
MemoircynthiaOctober 20, 2012daughters, daughters growing up, Miranda, Mr- Harbor, Oxford, flailing, Mr. Harbor, daughters grow up, travel, trying to make sense, photos Comment
A Feather and A Wish
A Feather and A Wish
TravelcynthiaOctober 18, 2012Scotland, souvenirs, Edinburgh, Arthur's Seat Comments
I Live Here?
I Live Here?
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaOctober 18, 2012home, summer, Gaviota, Ranch lifeComment
Remembering My Friend Bob Isaacson
Remembering My Friend Bob Isaacson
Friends, Memoir, PoetrycynthiaOctober 18, 2012Bob Isaacson, Gaviota Writers, writing, voice, El Chorro, poetry 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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