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Protectress
Protectress
Memoir, Commentary, Quarantine DiaryCyn CarboneJanuary 18, 2021Lisel Mueller, Joseph Stella, protection, totems, being strong, quarantine diary, commentary, friends, trying to make sense, wisdom
From An Old Journal
From An Old Journal
Memoir, Family HistoryCyn CarboneJanuary 11, 2021memoir, family history, journals, my father, loss, family, wisdom
And The Stories Continue...
And The Stories Continue...
Memoir, Ranch Life, Quarantine DiaryCyn CarboneJanuary 9, 2021memoir, oral history, Richard Blanco, kelp, wisdom, Jane Hollister Wheelwright, cycles, stories
Reckonings
Reckonings
Memoir, CommentaryCyn CarboneJanuary 7, 2021commentary, hikes, political commentary, history, quarantine diary
That Other Self, Who Watches
That Other Self, Who Watches
MemoirCyn CarboneJanuary 3, 2021memoir, choices, wisdom, new year, David Whyte, Jane Hirshfield
Ice Raft
Ice Raft
Memoir, Friends, Quarantine DiaryCyn CarboneDecember 31, 2020memoir, friendship, poetry, John O'Donohue, Mark Nepo, New Year's Eve, dreams
Conjunctions
Conjunctions
Memoir, Quarantine Diary, TeachingCyn CarboneDecember 22, 2020quarantine diary, planetary conjunction, astronomy, memoir, On Being, Pádraig Ó Tuama, grief, loss, wisdom, Krista Tippett
Waiting
Waiting
Memoir, Finding Hope, On Writing, Quarantine DiaryCyn CarboneDecember 20, 2020hope, memoir, quarantine diary
A Little Madness
A Little Madness
Memoir, Quarantine DiaryCyn CarboneDecember 10, 2020memoir, quarantine diary, ranch life, coping
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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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