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Observing California Lilac...While In Slavery to My Teeth
Observing California Lilac...While In Slavery to My Teeth
Memoir, NaturecynthiaJanuary 27, 2013ceanothus, Dostoevsky, toothache, Gaviota, Notes from UndergroundComment
It Was So Pleasantly Improbable
It Was So Pleasantly Improbable
Memoir, NaturecynthiaJanuary 19, 2013hikes, santa ynez valley womens hiking, mandolin, Hell's Half Acre, strolling mandolin playaer, music, McKinley Peak, Cachuma Saddle, San Rafael range Comments
I'm Just Mad About Saffron
I'm Just Mad About Saffron
Memoir, FriendscynthiaJanuary 14, 2013art and fear, painting, wisdom, friends, Jeanne, Cele, art, color, yellos, learning Comments
Leaning Up Against the Cheek of God
Leaning Up Against the Cheek of God
Friends, Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaJanuary 14, 2013Gaviota, Jackson Browne, middle school, ranch life, Dunn Middle School, oral history, Hollister Ranch, Lynne Castellanos, Linda Smith, music, gospel music, choir Comment
Saturday's Poem: Insomnia
Saturday's Poem: Insomnia
PoetrycynthiaJanuary 12, 2013insomnia, Linda Pastan, poetry Comments
Road, Rock, Respite
Road, Rock, Respite
Nature, TravelcynthiaJanuary 11, 2013photo gallery, Carrizo Plain, rock art, Out West, road trip Comments
Saturday's Poem: How to Regain Our Soul
Saturday's Poem: How to Regain Our Soul
Poetry, Finding Hope, NaturecynthiaJanuary 5, 2013William Stafford, How to Regain Our Soul, nature, travelComment
The Greatest Clues
The Greatest Clues
Friends, MemoircynthiaJanuary 2, 2013friends, walks, wisdomComment
Into the Strenuous Briefness
Into the Strenuous Briefness
PoetrycynthiaJanuary 1, 2013ee cummings, strenuous briefness, poetry 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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