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Boundary Waters
Boundary Waters
MemoirCyn CarboneMarch 11, 2023memoir, Minnesota-Canada, nature, Gordon LightfootComment
Pass It On: Rambling About Journals and Stumbling on Epiphanies
Pass It On: Rambling About Journals and Stumbling on Epiphanies
Memoir, On Writing, Poetry, speech, TeachingCyn CarboneMarch 6, 2023Richard Blanco, Gary Snyder, love, learning, journals, writing, my mother, memories, memoir, memory, William Stafford Comments
A Kind Of Faith
A Kind Of Faith
Memoir, Friends, Finding Hope, Ranch Life, Small PleasuresCyn CarboneFebruary 26, 2023faith, Lauren Groff, Cyd, friendship, California, beliefs, reflections, bike ride, walking, Santa Ynez Valley, Santa Barbara, memoir Comment
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
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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... red vein veterinary lesson best kind of welcome 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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