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Road Home
Road Home
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaMarch 29, 2013ranch life, road home, photo, trying Comments
It Takes Brokenness to Find It
It Takes Brokenness to Find It
Family History, Poetry, MemoircynthiaMarch 29, 2013memoir, family history, my father, Saverio William Carbone, poetry, Robert Hayden, life wisdom, Naomi Shihab NyeComment
Saturday's Poem (Where Do We Fit In?)
Saturday's Poem (Where Do We Fit In?)
PoetrycynthiaMarch 15, 2013poetry, Barbara Crooker, Anne SextonComment
Why You Haven't Heard From Me
Why You Haven't Heard From Me
Family History, MemoircynthiaMarch 15, 2013my mother, family history, elder care, loss, hard times, life lessons, wisdom, Esther Carbone, tending to elderly parents, childhood, memoir Comments
Saturday's Poem: Bird Language
Saturday's Poem: Bird Language
PoetrycynthiaMarch 1, 2013Auden, bird language, poetryComment
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
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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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