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Risking Delight
Risking Delight
Commentary, MemoircynthiaJuly 30, 2017beauty, being present, dance, dreams, dresses, Gaviota coast, hope, Jack Gilbert, life lessons, loving the world, patience, poetry, political commentary, resistance, risk delightComment
Little Nudges
Little Nudges
MemoircynthiaJuly 27, 2017writing, friendship, letters Comments
Hiding, Seeking, Being Here
Hiding, Seeking, Being Here
Memoir, Nature, Ranch LifecynthiaJuly 24, 2017bike ride, canyon wren, children, cycles, friends, hiding, neighbors, ranch, sky, William StaffordComment
The Weight of Things
The Weight of Things
Finding Hope, Friends, Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaJuly 18, 2017cattle ranching, friends, hope, ranch life, scales, walks, whalesComment
Our Smallness, and the Greatness of Our Love
Our Smallness, and the Greatness of Our Love
PoetrycynthiaJuly 15, 2017light, love, poetry, summer, Wendell BerryComment
The Neighborhood
The Neighborhood
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaJuly 11, 2017Comment
The Fort of July
The Fort of July
Finding Hope, Memoir, Nature, Ranch LifecynthiaJuly 5, 20174th of July, America, hope, kids, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Naomi Shihab Nye, politics, ranch lifeComment
Lights in the Night
Lights in the Night
Nature, Ranch LifecynthiaJuly 1, 2017boats, fishing, nights, ranch life, squid boats, wildlifeComment
Tuesday Morning
Tuesday Morning
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaJune 27, 2017cattle, daughters, ranch lifeComment
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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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