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Tomboy Joy
Tomboy Joy
Memoir, Friends, Ranch LifeCyn CarboneJanuary 22, 2023memoir, walks, friends, grief, Airlift, women's march, Niall Williams, ranch life, tomboys, Wendell BerryComment
Good News and Bad
Good News and Bad
Memoir, Friends, Ranch LifeCyn CarboneJanuary 12, 2023ranch life, storm, rain, vulnerability, perspective, GaviotaComment
An Italian Story
An Italian Story
Memoir, Family HistoryCyn CarboneJanuary 5, 2023travel, Naples, family history, New YearsComment
Beneath A Beach Umbrella
Beneath A Beach Umbrella
Family History, MemoirCyn CarboneDecember 28, 2022old photos, family photos, stories, memoir, my grandfather, travel, Boscoreale Comment
The Harvest of This Haggard Year
The Harvest of This Haggard Year
Memoir, Finding Hope, TravelCyn CarboneDecember 26, 2022memoir, travel, daughters, Rebecca Solnit, Adam Tooze, The Atlantic, Edna St- Vincent Millay, getting old, grandmothers Comments
A Take-Charge Guy
A Take-Charge Guy
Memoir, Family HistoryCyn CarboneDecember 18, 2022travel, memoir, Felix, grandparenting, dreams, EnglandComment
I Did Not Fail To Notice
I Did Not Fail To Notice
Memoir, Family History, TravelCyn CarboneDecember 11, 2022memoir, grandparenting, winter, Oxford, travel, my daughter, poems, Mark Nepo, Kathleen Driscoll, getting old, life wisdom, FelixComment
The Way It Is
The Way It Is
Memoir, Ranch LifeCyn CarboneDecember 4, 2022rain, travel, getting older, grandson, coping, change, life, bridges, friendsComment
When We Were Very Young: An Oldie
When We Were Very Young: An Oldie
MemoirCyn CarboneNovember 22, 2022long island, youth, old photos, Locust Street, friends, 1960s, Central Islip, memoir, old photographs Comment
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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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