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We Were Here
We Were Here
Friends, MemoirCyn CarboneFebruary 19, 2023memoir, aging, friends, sharing, William Stafford, joy, Mary Oliver, wisdomComment
Pruning and Maintenance
Pruning and Maintenance
MemoirCyn CarboneFebruary 10, 2023memoir, ranch life, aging, maintenance, tending to thingsComment
The Trophy Shop
The Trophy Shop
MemoirCyn CarboneJanuary 30, 2023memoir, Santa Barbara, local shopsComment
A Fish Tale
A Fish Tale
MemoirCyn CarboneJanuary 24, 2023memory, fishing, memoir, anecdote, old photosComment
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
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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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