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The Enigma We Answer By Living
The Enigma We Answer By Living
Nature, PoetrycynthiaJune 29, 2015poetry, Alison Hawthorne Deming, mystery, animalsComment
Looking Outside
Looking Outside
Commentary, Finding Hope, NaturecynthiaJune 29, 2015hope, commentary, President Obama, health care, gun control, home, rainbows, wonder, nature, planets, gratitudeComment
Home Again
Home Again
Memoir, Ranch Life, TravelcynthiaJune 28, 2015travel, photos, Wales, home, landscape Comment
Moment by Moment
Moment by Moment
MemoircynthiaJune 3, 2015wonders, travel, ranch life, daughters growing up, England, Monte, Miranda, wisdom, memories, memoir, childhood, growing up Comment
Searching for The Key
Searching for The Key
Memoir, FriendscynthiaMay 25, 2015elderly parents, memories, forgetting, forgiveness, Dan Gerber, Rilke, loss, wisdom, kindness, slowing down, oil spill, prayer, Ranch life, my mother, friends, Vickie Comments
The School Play
The School Play
MemoircynthiaMay 9, 2015kids growing up, Vista de las Cruces, Gaviota, nostalgia, Midsummer Night/s DreamComment
Mysteries of Her Own
Mysteries of Her Own
MemoircynthiaApril 30, 2015family history, memories, my mother, old photographs, Esther Carbone, trunk of pain, Man of La Mancha, mysteries Comments
Through A Portal
Through A Portal
Memoir, Friends, Finding HopecynthiaApril 12, 2015Big Sur, travel, joy, friends Comments
Sometimes You Let the Day Take You Where It Will
Sometimes You Let the Day Take You Where It Will
Memoir, Friends, Ranch Life, Small PleasurescynthiaMarch 28, 2015neighbors, Virginia, Carey, ranch life, memoir, pancakesComment
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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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