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May Morning, Oxford
May Morning, Oxford
Poetry, TravelcynthiaMay 14, 2016Alden Nowlan, May Morning, Oxford, travel, Vera Brittain, poetry, England Comments
Shoes
Shoes
Family History, Travel, MemoircynthiaMay 13, 2016family history, father, grandfather, Italy, Mastrogio, Scafati, shoes, travels, memoir, my father, time travel, stories, LucaComment
My Island of Inglese
My Island of Inglese
Travel, MemoircynthiaMay 12, 2016Italian, language, travel, Italian family, Scafati, Naples, language acquisition, family history, LucaComment
Playing Records in the Basement
Playing Records in the Basement
Friends, MemoircynthiaApril 16, 20161960s, boomers, getting older, high school, Long Island, teens Comments
Windy Days
Windy Days
Memoir, Nature, Ranch LifecynthiaApril 16, 2016David Whyte, Gaviota, Krista Tippett, mysteries, On Being, ranch life, wind, wondersComment
Status Report
Status Report
Memoir, Friends, Finding HopecynthiaApril 8, 2016Buddhist perspective, Einstein, fear, getting older, gratitude-, grief, life wisdom, Pema Chodron, Rilke, Saigyo, soul-searching, wisdom, hard timesComment
The Return of the Bike Girls
The Return of the Bike Girls
Friends, Memoir, Small PleasurescynthiaApril 1, 2016bicycle friends, bicycles, bike girls, friends, ranch life Comment
The Immensity
The Immensity
Finding Hope, Memoir, Nature, TeachingcynthiaMarch 31, 2016backcountry, becoming an elder, Chumash, getting older, hikes, life lessons, San Rafael Wilderness, wisdom Comments
There's This
There's This
Friends, Nature, Ranch Life, Small PleasurescynthiaMarch 23, 2016birding, birds, birdwatching, canyon wren, friends, Gaviota, Rebecca, bird-watching, the Ranch, Guy, Fred Emerson, Nick, nature 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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