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A Fine Act of Insurrection
A Fine Act of Insurrection
Cyn CarboneJanuary 9, 2020Santa Ynez Valley, hiking, Rebecca Solnit, hope, joy, nature, Mary Oliver, Figueroa Mountain, Los Padres National Forest
The Wild Outback
The Wild Outback
Cyn CarboneJanuary 5, 2020
Beginning Again
Beginning Again
Cyn CarboneDecember 13, 2019
Wild and Precious
Wild and Precious
Commentary, Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaJanuary 17, 2019canyon walks, Mary Oliver, poetry, rain, ranch life, recovery, Sacate Creek, stormComment
Wide Open Day
Wide Open Day
Memoir, Nature, Ranch LifecynthiaJanuary 9, 2019rain, ranch lifeComment
In A Cave, Story-Talking
In A Cave, Story-Talking
Friends, Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaDecember 22, 2018caves, hikes, Lisel Mueller, poetry, story-talk, storytelling, teaching, walksComment
Erring on the Side of Yes
Erring on the Side of Yes
MemoircynthiaNovember 16, 2018Comment
Water
Water
Memoir, FriendscynthiaSeptember 12, 2018recovery, swimming, water Comment
Change
Change
Memoir, Ranch LifecynthiaAugust 29, 2018change, healing, memoir, postsurgery, ranch life, recoveryComment
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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 best kind of welcome Ranch roads on this late summer morning... red vein veterinary lesson 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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