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Venus at the Freeway
Venus at the Freeway
Memoir, Friends, TravelCyn CarboneNovember 7, 2022Orange County, friends, family, travelComment
I Remember
I Remember
Memoir, Friends, TravelCyn CarboneOctober 26, 2022travel, utah, Eastern Sierra, Lone Pine, Yant Flat, Mineral Mountains, friendship, aging, rental cars, Maria Popova, Jane Hirshfield, joy, gratitude, memoir, aspen, John Wayne, Patricia Lockwood Comments
The Six of Us
The Six of Us
Memoir, Family HistoryCyn CarboneOctober 16, 2022family history, siblings, old photos, snapshot, Long Island, memoir, Eddie, Marlene
Wonders Abound
Wonders Abound
Memoir, Friends, Ranch LifeCyn CarboneOctober 11, 2022miracles, ranch life, friends, fog, moonlight, wonder, memoir
These Solo Walks
These Solo Walks
Memoir, NatureCyn CarboneOctober 6, 2022walks, Rebecca Solnit, Willa Cather, Bertrand Russell, aging, ranch life, searching for meaning
The Kitchen Ceiling
The Kitchen Ceiling
Memoir, Friends, Family HistoryCyn CarboneOctober 2, 2022my father, art, Long Island, memories, friends, memoir, Italy, family history, Saverio William CarboneComment
Revival
Revival
Memoir, Finding Hope, Nature, Ranch LifeCyn CarboneSeptember 24, 2022memoir, ranch life, nature, rain, hopeComment
The Doll Emancipation
The Doll Emancipation
Memoir, Family History, On WritingCyn CarboneSeptember 17, 2022memoir, family history, dolls, family, wisdom, looking back, Mary OliverComment
Let's Talk About Stucco
Let's Talk About Stucco
Memoir, Small Pleasures, Ranch LifeCyn CarboneSeptember 8, 2022grandparenting, wonder, stucco, questions, memoir, farm equipment, William StaffordComment
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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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