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A place to pause
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Clarity
Clarity
Memoir, Poetry, Quarantine DiaryCyn CarboneJuly 10, 2020Derek Wolcott, poetry, pandemic, ranch life, memoir
Owning My Sadness
Owning My Sadness
Memoir, Quarantine DiaryCyn CarboneJuly 4, 2020sadness, reading, friends, pandemic
Prayer Flags
Prayer Flags
Memoir, Quarantine Diary, TeachingCyn CarboneJuly 3, 2020prayer flags, ripple effect, teaching, hope, loss, ranch life, Gaviota
Learning To Fly
Learning To Fly
Friends, MemoirCyn CarboneJune 27, 2020Greg Winterbottom, friendship, loss, memoir
When Simpleness and Duty Tender It
When Simpleness and Duty Tender It
Memoir, Quarantine Diary, TeachingCyn CarboneJune 26, 2020teaching, school, ranch life, neighbors, community, writing, learning
The People I Loved
The People I Loved
Memoir, Quarantine DiaryCyn CarboneJune 14, 2020family, memoir, ranch life
Only Now
Only Now
Memoir, Quarantine DiaryCyn CarboneJune 12, 2020pandemic, ranch life, memories, memoir, time travel, history
Into Wonder
Into Wonder
MemoirCyn CarboneJune 7, 2020ranch life, wonders, grandson, pandemic
Parachute
Parachute
Cyn CarboneJune 4, 2020
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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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