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Furniture-less
Furniture-less
Memoir, FriendscynthiaJune 25, 2013Dorothy, friends, Maurice Sendak, friendship, writing, being stalled, Ursula Nordstrom, music, learning, growth, creativity Comments
What Caught  My Eye
What Caught My Eye
Travel, MemoircynthiaJune 23, 2013photo gallery, images, northern CaliforniaComment
Legend: Saturday's (Found) Poem
Legend: Saturday's (Found) Poem
PoetrycynthiaJune 22, 2013found poem, trail sign, You are hereComment
Cookie and May and the Rest of Them Too
Cookie and May and the Rest of Them Too
MemoircynthiaJune 16, 2013brooklyn, childhood memories, Coney Island Avenue, childhood, 1950s Brooklyn, nostalgia, New York, characters, people passing, Prospect ParkComment
The Heart's Slow Learning
The Heart's Slow Learning
Memoir, Family HistorycynthiaJune 15, 2013brooklyn, Camp Cooke, childhood memories, family history, fathers, Saverio William Carbone, butterfly tray, my father, learning, artifacts, objects, Annie Dillard, life lessons, Buenos Aires Comments
Saturday's Poem: Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney
Saturday's Poem: Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney
PoetrycynthiaJune 15, 2013Seamus Heaney, ScaffoldingComment
Hubris
Hubris
MemoircynthiaJune 12, 2013minor injuries, laziness, memoir, learning, vulnerability Comments
As Seen On TV
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
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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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