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The Shoreline of the Invisible
The Shoreline of the Invisible
Memoir, Finding HopecynthiaAugust 11, 2015baking bread, John O'Donohue, Jeanne, friends, mother, loss, dreams, memoir, my mother, wanting more, strange to be here Comment
When The Visit Is Over
When The Visit Is Over
MemoircynthiaAugust 7, 2015daughters grow up, visits, good-bues, EnglandComment
Beneath A Grapefruit Tree
Beneath A Grapefruit Tree
Memoir, Ranch Life, Small PleasurescynthiaAugust 6, 2015family, mentors, Nancy, my mother in law, ranch life, citrus, grapefruit, wonders Comments
Disgruntled
Disgruntled
Friends, MemoircynthiaAugust 4, 2015Teresa, California girls, Best Coast, wind, ranch life, friends Comments
Inside the Ghost House
Inside the Ghost House
Memoir, FriendscynthiaJuly 30, 2015houses, ghost, friendsComment
Another Summer
Another Summer
Memoir, Ranch Life, Small PleasurescynthiaJuly 27, 2015neighbors, friends, Cornelia, plum, macadamia trees, macadamia nuts, VirginiaComment
Melting Away Into Leaves
Melting Away Into Leaves
Memoir, Poetry, Ranch LifecynthiaJuly 27, 2015aging, El Chorro, Esther Isaacson, Gaviota, local history, Lompoc, Mary Oliver, ranch life, elders, getting old, Jim Poett, oral historyComment
Another Random Moment (Washed Onto My Shore By Facebook)
Another Random Moment (Washed Onto My Shore By Facebook)
Commentary, Friends, Memoir, Small PleasurescynthiaJuly 19, 20151960s Long Island, Facebook, friends, high school Comments
Correlation is Not Causation
Correlation is Not Causation
Friends, Memoir, On WritingcynthiaJuly 14, 2015acoustic neuroma, friends, Gaviota Writers, music, writing, writing groups, Beethoven, Alice Munro, hearing, gratitude, Buellton, writers, Monte, wisdom, bike ride 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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