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In the Wake of Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels
In the Wake of Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels
Books and publications, Memoir, Small PleasurescynthiaSeptember 27, 2015Elena Ferrante, literature, Naples, books, memoir, mother, childhood, Italy, travel, readingComment
Matinee
Matinee
Friends, Memoir, Small PleasurescynthiaSeptember 3, 2015escapes, matinees, moviesComment
September
September
Memoir, PoetrycynthiaSeptember 1, 2015childhood memories, fall, Mary Jo Salter, poetry, resolutions, SeptemberComment
At The Sea Wall
At The Sea Wall
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaAugust 31, 2015friends, Gaviota, local history, Point Conception, railroad, ranch life, Santa Barbara, sea wall, Elwood, Orella, Channel Islands, geologyComment
And Love
And Love
Memoir, PoetrycynthiaAugust 30, 2015love, commentary, Dan Gerber, signing letters, memoir Comment
Death...And Living
Death...And Living
Commentary, Finding Hope, Friends, MemoircynthiaAugust 30, 2015bereavement, coping, death, elderly parents, life & death, life lessons, loss, Oliver Sacks, grief, Esther Carbone, living and dyingComment
The Pomegranate
The Pomegranate
Friends, Memoir, Small PleasurescynthiaAugust 27, 2015 Comments
Beach Days
Beach Days
Memoir, Small PleasurescynthiaAugust 20, 2015beaches, photographs, Spalding Pelissero, gallery, nostalgia, summer, Deborah Spalding Pelissero, timeless, Tecolate BeachComment
Dearest Leo
Dearest Leo
MemoircynthiaAugust 13, 2015adolescence, diary, journals, secrets 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 best kind of welcome Ranch roads on this late summer morning... red vein veterinary lesson 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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