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Old Friends and Red Lipstick
Old Friends and Red Lipstick
Memoir, FriendsCyn CarboneAugust 20, 2023friends, Bike Babes, bikes, memories, memoir Comment
What You Are Given
What You Are Given
Memoir, Finding Hope, Poetry, Ranch Life, Small PleasuresCyn CarboneAugust 14, 2023poetry, Jane Hirshfield, gratitude, hope, walks, shooting stars, cooking, friendshipComment
Back To School
Back To School
Finding Hope, Memoir, TeachingCyn CarboneAugust 14, 2023teaching, back to school, hope, memoirComment
Stone or Star
Stone or Star
MemoirCyn CarboneAugust 6, 2023Santa Barbara, Rilke, Keats, Dan, Mavis Staples, concert, evening walks, memoir, poetryComment
Home Again, I Think
Home Again, I Think
Memoir, On Writing, Ranch Life, TravelCyn CarboneJuly 30, 2023memoir, travel, ranch life, re-entry, writing, gratitude, friendship
California
California
MemoirCyn CarboneJuly 22, 2023California, grandparenting, England, travel, memoirComment
Free Falling
Free Falling
Memoir, Travel, Family HistoryCyn CarboneJuly 10, 2023Michael Levin, music, existentialism, Marlene, my brother, navigating life, travelComment
Heavy and Weightless
Heavy and Weightless
Memoir, Finding Hope, TravelCyn CarboneJuly 9, 2023memoir, travel, England, Boomers, grandparenting, lectures, literature, Michael Levin, wonderComment
Unmoored
Unmoored
Memoir, TravelCyn CarboneJuly 2, 2023memoir, grandparenting, travel, OxfordComment
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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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