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Planting A Promise
Planting A Promise
Cyn CarboneJanuary 16, 2020
How Do We Continue?
How Do We Continue?
Cyn CarboneJanuary 14, 2020friendship, grief, John O'Donohue, wisdom
Lightening Up
Lightening Up
MemoircynthiaJanuary 12, 2020Comment
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
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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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