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On This Day Fourteen Years Ago
On This Day Fourteen Years Ago
MemoircynthiaJuly 12, 2015daughters growing up, journals, South Coast Writing Project, Miranda, family, writing, nostalgiaComment
Maybe All of Summer Is Just One Day
Maybe All of Summer Is Just One Day
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaJuly 9, 2015acoustic neuroma, aging, daughters growing up, Jane Gross, Jane Hollister Wheelwright, life lessons, loss, Pico Iyer, stillness, summer, tending to elderly parents, loss of parents, mother, decisions, my mother, wisdom Comment
Thoughts At Our Daughter's Wedding
Thoughts At Our Daughter's Wedding
Memoir, speechcynthiaJune 30, 2015daughters growing up, England, weddings, toast, our daughter, Oxford, Miranda and Xander, wedding Comments
Through the Tall Grass
Through the Tall Grass
Memoir, Nature, Family History, Ranch LifecynthiaJune 30, 2015life lessons, loss, Dan Gerber, death, mortality, coyotes, poetry, processing loss, my mother, grief, Psalm, coping, wisdom, ranch life, coyote, ongoingnessComment
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
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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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