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As Seen On TV
MemoircynthiaJune 10, 2013Solvang, humor, stuffComment
Here Is A Morning
Here Is A Morning
Memoir, Family HistorycynthiaJune 9, 2013Dan Gerber, Jack Kornfield, Ray Elardo, wisdom, getting old, mornings, family history, stories, fog, Marcia Angell, a good life, George E. Vaillant, my mother, my father, gratitude, noticing Comments
You'll Go Places
You'll Go Places
MemoircynthiaJune 3, 2013graduation, Dunn Middle School, teaching, memoir, students, change Comments
Snippets
Snippets
Memoir, TravelcynthiaJune 1, 2013Guadalupe, oral history, quotes, memorabilia, local charactersComment
Saturday's Poem: Ode on the Whole Duty of Parents
Saturday's Poem: Ode on the Whole Duty of Parents
PoetrycynthiaJune 1, 2013parenting, new baby, Ryan and Carey Harrington, Virginia, Frances CornfordComment
A Bit of Time Travel in Guadalupe
A Bit of Time Travel in Guadalupe
Memoir, TravelcynthiaMay 30, 2013Guadalupe, Kam Jacoby, local history, old photos, memories, Chico, time travel, storiesComment
At the Edge
At the Edge
Memoir, TravelcynthiaMay 27, 2013Grand Canyon, Toroweap, Utah, travel, Out West, Arizona, memoires, Zion, Colorado River, gratitude, maturity, Alain de Boton Comments
Spring Creek
Spring Creek
Friends, TravelcynthiaMay 25, 2013loving the earth, friends, utah, Toroweep, hikingComment
Toroweap
Toroweap
TravelcynthiaMay 23, 2013photo, landscape, Utah, ToroweapComment
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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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