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Christmas, Modestly
Christmas, Modestly
Memoir, Ranch Life, Small PleasurescynthiaDecember 23, 2012Christmas, friends, technology, England, family, Ranch life, Mr. Harbor, gratitude, friendship, Kelley, Donna, Miranda and XanderComment
Saturday's Poem: Miracle Fair
Saturday's Poem: Miracle Fair
PoetrycynthiaDecember 21, 2012miracles, Wiskawa Szynborska, poetryComment
Our Way in the Night: Remembering Mark Haunfelner
Our Way in the Night: Remembering Mark Haunfelner
Friends, Memoir, Finding HopecynthiaDecember 21, 2012Mark Haunfelner, friends, loss, remembranceComment
Bright Lights and Bragging Rights
Bright Lights and Bragging Rights
Memoir, TravelcynthiaDecember 16, 2012Guadalupe, Johnny Perry, nostalgia, oral history, music, multicultural, Kam Jacoby, local history Comment
Saturday's Poem: Love Crosses Its Islands
Saturday's Poem: Love Crosses Its Islands
PoetrycynthiaDecember 15, 2012Neruda, poetry, love, griefComment
UncategorizedcynthiaDecember 14, 2012Comment
Saturday's Poem: The Word
Saturday's Poem: The Word
PoetrycynthiaDecember 8, 2012sunlight, hope, tony Hoagland, The Word, poetryComment
A Constant Carol
A Constant Carol
Friends, MemoircynthiaDecember 5, 20121950s, brooklyn, childhood memories, dolls, make-believe, Coney Island Avenue, childhood, best friends, friendship, memoir, St. Mark's, Carol Bessey Comments
Iris + Rain
Iris + Rain
Nature, Ranch Life, Small PleasurescynthiaDecember 2, 2012photos, flowers, iris, rain, beautyComment
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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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