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A Good Day for a Walk
A Good Day for a Walk
Memoir, Small PleasurescynthiaMay 17, 2014photo gallery, walking, England, walk, nature, tree Comments
Thoughts of Home from Faraway
Thoughts of Home from Faraway
Memoir, TravelcynthiaMay 16, 2014England, travel, Nancy, distance, homesick, friendsComment
I Have Lacked Lilacs
I Have Lacked Lilacs
Memoir, TravelcynthiaMay 14, 2014lilacs, travel, England, Oxford, anxiety, friendsComment
Chunk of Coal
Chunk of Coal
Memoir, Nature, Ranch LifecynthiaMay 3, 2014local history, ranch life, shipwrecks, Newcastle, shipwreck, Cojo, Gosford Comments
Whales
Whales
Nature, Ranch LifecynthiaMay 1, 2014whales, wonder, glimpses, Ranch lifeComment
Spring, Fully
Spring, Fully
Friends, Memoir, Nature, Ranch LifecynthiaApril 27, 2014daughters growing up, springtime, Rilke, memories, nostalgia, outdoors, bicycles, Ranch lifeComment
For Saturday, A Song
For Saturday, A Song
Poetry, Ranch LifecynthiaApril 26, 2014neighbors, neighborhood, Harrington, Rpm S, otj., Easter, Hollister Ranch, California history, ranch life, friends, the train, nature, poetry, songComment
A Walk With Friends
A Walk With Friends
Friends, Ranch Life, Small PleasurescynthiaApril 25, 2014photo, Kurt Vonnegut, walks, wonder, Ranch lifeComment
Ninety-One
Ninety-One
Memoir, Family HistorycynthiaApril 24, 2014aging, eldercare, elderly parents, figuring things out, memories, wisdom, Jane Gross, assisted living, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, my mother, Esther Carbone, birthdays, love, patience, kindness, elders 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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