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My Sequestration Day
My Sequestration Day
Memoir, Nature, Ranch LifecynthiaMarch 1, 2013time out, lupines, ranch lifeComment
Cyd and I Were Young Together
Cyd and I Were Young Together
Friends, MemoircynthiaFebruary 23, 2013Chicago, friends, Madison Comments
Saturday's Poem: Things
Saturday's Poem: Things
PoetrycynthiaFebruary 23, 2013insomnia, sleepless night, Fleur AdcockComment
In Gilbert's Barber Shop
In Gilbert's Barber Shop
Travel, MemoircynthiaFebruary 21, 2013Guadalupe, barber, car shows, art, design, Gilbert, haircutting, aesthetics, oral history, Vandenberg, Kam Jacoby Comments
A Thought From Kim Stafford
A Thought From Kim Stafford
CommentarycynthiaFebruary 19, 2013quotes, Kim Stafford, Woody Guthrie, Internet, hungers, storytelling, languageComment
Saturday's Poem(s): Two by John Ciardi
Saturday's Poem(s): Two by John Ciardi
PoetrycynthiaFebruary 16, 2013John Ciardi, poetry, Peonies, Aging Lovers, love, flowers Comment
On Being 60-something: A Few Things I Think I've Learned
On Being 60-something: A Few Things I Think I've Learned
MemoircynthiaFebruary 16, 2013aging, living- learning, wisdom, advice Comments
And I Hugged Him Through His Overcoat and Time
And I Hugged Him Through His Overcoat and Time
Family History, MemoircynthiaFebruary 15, 2013family, grandfather, Italy, old photographs Comments
Highlights
Highlights
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaFebruary 12, 2013friends, walks, cattle, horses, launch, Vandenberg, wonders, rockets, La PurisimaComment
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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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