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'Tis A Season
'Tis A Season
Commentary, Finding Hope, Memoir, Ranch Life, TeachingcynthiaDecember 13, 2016California, Christmas, Yvon Chouinard, hope, dorothyComment
Leaving Dream-Island
Leaving Dream-Island
CommentarycynthiaDecember 2, 2016baking bread, Barbara Kingsolver, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, dreams, grief, politics, ranch life, stories Comments
What We Need Is Here
What We Need Is Here
Commentary, Memoir, NaturecynthiaNovember 23, 20162016 election, canyon wren, coping, hikes, Jon Stewart, Lao Tzu, mountain lion, nature, Point Conception, Thich Nhat Hanh, walks Comments
Thinking Loudly
Thinking Loudly
CommentarycynthiaNovember 20, 20162016 election, change, coping, Luigi Zingales, politics, reflections, Sarah Kendzior, Seneca, strategy, Trump, rantingComment
WTF
WTF
CommentarycynthiaNovember 9, 20162016 election, disillusionment, Hillary Clinton, national identity, reflections, Trump, U-S-A- Comments
Time Change
Time Change
Commentary, MemoircynthiaNovember 7, 20162016 election, change, Hillary Clinton, Leonard Cohen, politics, ranch life, reflections, time change, Trump, changesComment
Chicago
Chicago
Family History, Memoir, TravelcynthiaNovember 3, 20161970s, brother, Chicago, family, father, World SeriesComment
When We No Longer Know Which Way To Go
When We No Longer Know Which Way To Go
Friends, Memoir, Nature, On WritingcynthiaOctober 26, 2016friends, memoir, nature, poetry, Wendell Barry, writing, my mother, John Hollister Wheelwright, loss, Sierras, Wendell Berry, grief, the debate, before the deluge, nasty women, travel, June lake, friendship Comment
Reconnecting
Reconnecting
Friends, MemoircynthiaOctober 13, 2016childhood, friends, memoir, New York, travel, Carol, reunionsComment
Newer Older
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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