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Journey by Train
Journey by Train
PoetrycynthiaJanuary 19, 2016May Sarton, poetry, ranch life, trains, Pacific SurflinerComment
Searching for Wisdom With Time Out for Orange Juice
Searching for Wisdom With Time Out for Orange Juice
Commentary, Finding Hope, Friends, MemoircynthiaJanuary 18, 2016coping, David Bowie, friends, life wisdom, mortality, ranch life, walks, Paul Kalanithi, orangesComment
Social (In)Security
Social (In)Security
Commentary, MemoircynthiaJanuary 16, 2016bureaucracy, hard times, homelessness, Social Security, Santa Barbara, economics, family history, Eddie, Kafka, Santa Maria, diligence Comments
A Walk to the Seawall in Rain
A Walk to the Seawall in Rain
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaJanuary 10, 2016rain, ranch life, sea wall, walksComment
To Somehow Find Our Way
To Somehow Find Our Way
Memoir, PoetrycynthiaJanuary 3, 2016bereavement, coping with loss, end of year, Naomi Shihab Nye, poetry, rain, Stanley Kunitz, my mother, poems, The Long Boat, grief Comments
A Girl With A Suitcase
A Girl With A Suitcase
Memoir, Poetry, Ranch Life, Small PleasurescynthiaDecember 27, 2015childhood, Christmas, Krista Tippett, Paul Muldoon, poetry, walks, Mr. Harbor, Virginia Comments
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
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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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