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Not-Thinking
Not-Thinking
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaDecember 26, 2015bereavement, Christmas, coping with loss, life lessons, my mother, coping, wisdom, Ranch life, Nancy WardComment
Permission Granted
Permission Granted
MemoircynthiaDecember 23, 2015bereavement, coping with loss, memoir, music, my mother, rainbows, grief, permission to be happy, Esther Carbone, sorrow, wisdomComment
Our Rashomon...And A Child's Touching Faith
Our Rashomon...And A Child's Touching Faith
Family History, Finding Hope, MemoircynthiaDecember 23, 2015cats, childhood memories, coping with loss, faith, family history, petsComment
The Holidays
The Holidays
Family History, Finding Hope, MemoircynthiaDecember 22, 20151960s Long Island, childhood, Christmas, family history Comments
Rain Came Through
Rain Came Through
Nature, Ranch LifecynthiaNovember 2, 2015rain, ranch life Comments
Big Night In The Canyon
Big Night In The Canyon
Friends, Ranch LifecynthiaNovember 2, 2015Halloween, neighbors, costumesComment
Words
Words
Poetry, Small PleasurescynthiaOctober 22, 2015poetry, Bob Isaacson, Julio Noboa Polanco, identity, words, friends, New York, BuelltonComment
Here's Another Poem I Love
Here's Another Poem I Love
PoetrycynthiaOctober 16, 2015Barbara Crooker, life wisdom, love, poetry, time's passageComment
Change of Scene
Change of Scene
Small Pleasures, TravelcynthiaOctober 16, 2015friends, hikes, Pinnacles, rain, Carmel ValleyComment
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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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