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Arroyo Hondo Foray
Arroyo Hondo Foray
Friends, Memoir, NaturecynthiaApril 3, 2014friends, hiking, local history, Arroyo Hondo, Gaviota, Cornelia, hikes, J.J. HollisterComment
And It Changes
And It Changes
Poetry, Ranch LifecynthiaApril 1, 2014Barry Spacks, change, life&death, poetryComment
Grass Mountain
Grass Mountain
Memoir, NaturecynthiaMarch 31, 2014Grass Mountain, Santa Ynez Valley, walks, photos, Steve, hiking, Figueroa MountainComment
Whose Brooklyn?
Whose Brooklyn?
Memoir, TravelcynthiaMarch 29, 2014brooklyn, change, childhood memories, immigrants, Coney Island Avenue, Kensington, changesComment
Keep Growing Quietly
Keep Growing Quietly
Memoir, On Writing, Small PleasurescynthiaMarch 28, 2014bicycles, figuring things out, Santa Ynez Valley, writing, RilkeComment
On My Father's Birthday
On My Father's Birthday
Family History, MemoircynthiaMarch 27, 20141960s Long Island, daughters, family, family history, father, memories, Saverio William Carbone, Daddy, Solstice, love, Daddy's thermos Comments
A Yes-I'm-Still-Alive Post
A Yes-I'm-Still-Alive Post
MemoircynthiaMarch 27, 2014Orange County, eldercare, senior citizens, my motherComment
That Birthday...and the Rest to Come
That Birthday...and the Rest to Come
Family History, Memoir, On WritingcynthiaMarch 1, 2014thesaurus, writing, my father, love, words, birthdays, gifts, Saverio William Carbone Comments
Weather
Weather
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaMarch 1, 2014weather, Gaviota, storm, Gaviota pier, photos, stormsComment
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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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