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A Rally and A Road Trip
A Rally and A Road Trip
Commentary, Finding Hope, Friends, Memoir, Nature, TravelcynthiaJanuary 31, 2018Amargosa River Valley, California, Death Valley, Las Vegas, Nevada, Newberry Springs, political commentary, politics, road trip, Route 66, Tecopa, travel, Women's March rallyComment
It's Time To Get Up
It's Time To Get Up
CommentarycynthiaJanuary 24, 2018politics, Women's March rallyComment
Road Trip With a Mission
Road Trip With a Mission
Memoir, TravelcynthiaJanuary 18, 2018acoustic neuroma, Las Vegas, political commentary, politics, power at the polls, voting, women's marchComment
Out There
Out There
NaturecynthiaJanuary 12, 2018Chumash, hikes, nature, walks, wisdomComment
Vivid Dreams, Vivid Waking
Vivid Dreams, Vivid Waking
MemoircynthiaJanuary 10, 2018dreams, Mary Oliver, memoir, mudslide, poetry, Santa Barbara, teaching, worries, weeping, wanting, surgeryComment
In A Land of Enchantment
In A Land of Enchantment
Memoir, Nature, Ranch LifecynthiaJanuary 9, 2018canyon, Gaviota, rain, respite, Santa Barbara, the ranch, walksComment
Uncertainty
Uncertainty
Finding Hope, MemoircynthiaJanuary 8, 2018decisions, finding hope, On Being, Rebecca Solnit, uncertainty Comments
To The New Year by W.S. Merwin
To The New Year by W.S. Merwin
PoetrycynthiaDecember 31, 2017new year, poetry, W-S- MerwinComment
Still Possible
Still Possible
MemoircynthiaDecember 31, 2017memoir, new year, resolutionsComment
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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... veterinary lesson best kind of welcome red vein 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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