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Trying to Remember A Path
Trying to Remember A Path
Memoir, Quarantine DiaryCyn CarboneDecember 7, 2020Richard Blanco, William Stafford, wisdom, quarantine diary, oranges
I Wish I Could Show You
I Wish I Could Show You
Memoir, Quarantine DiaryCyn CarboneNovember 26, 2020Thanksgiving, gratitude, Hafiz, Edna St- Vincent Millay, poetry, wisdom, hope, quarantine diary
Happenings
Happenings
Memoir, Friends, Quarantine DiaryCyn CarboneNovember 19, 2020memoir, quarantine diary, friendship, walks, dreams, loss, life wisdom
Jam-Tinted Toast
Jam-Tinted Toast
Memoir, Quarantine Diary, Ranch LifeCyn CarboneNovember 15, 2020quarantine diary, memoir, friendship, wisdom, hikes, Nikki Giovanni, poetry, life wisdom
Sowing Lupine Seeds
Sowing Lupine Seeds
Memoir, Friends, Commentary, Quarantine DiaryCyn CarboneNovember 9, 2020lupines, loss, election, grief, hope, memoir, quarantine diary, friends, chicago
America the Stranger
America the Stranger
Finding Hope, Commentary, Quarantine DiaryCyn CarboneNovember 4, 2020politcal commentary, election, 2020 election, quarantine diary, wisdom, trump, Biden
What Do We Do With the Rage?
What Do We Do With the Rage?
Memoir, Friends, Quarantine DiaryCyn CarboneOctober 28, 2020election, commentary, political commentary, John O'Donohue, Oliver Sacks, Joan Halifax, equanimity, wisdom, quarantine diary
Counting Cows
Counting Cows
MemoirCyn CarboneOctober 25, 2020cattle, ranch life, cattle ranching, walks, hikes, memoir, Richard Feynman, Iris DeMent, questions
Aristotle's Walking Stick
Aristotle's Walking Stick
Memoir, Friends, Ranch Life, Quarantine DiaryCyn CarboneOctober 20, 2020memories, walking stick, objects, random objects, Greece, friesn, friends, poetry, stories, oral history
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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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