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How It’s Been
How It’s Been
Memoir, Ranch LifeCyn CarboneJanuary 6, 2024memoir, grandparenting, coping, Felix, family, visits, Ranch visits, getting older, Willa Cather, W.S. Merwin, new year Comment
What Nancy Believed
What Nancy Believed
Memoir, Friends, Nature, Ranch LifeCyn CarboneDecember 25, 2023Nancy Ward, ranch life, memoir, wisdom, Christmas, gifts Comments
‘Tis a Season
‘Tis a Season
Memoir, Nature, Finding Hope, Ranch Life, Family HistoryCyn CarboneDecember 18, 2023memoir, Christmas, Gaviota, ranch life, seasons, wisdom, change, hope, family Comment
Details
Details
Memoir, Family HistoryCyn CarboneDecember 9, 2023childhood, writing, Christmas, family, Brooklyn, memories, memoir, wisdom, learningComment
How Lucky I Was
How Lucky I Was
Memoir, On Writing, PoetryCyn CarboneNovember 30, 2023memoir, dreams, wisdom, Robert Frost, writing
Authentic Intelligence
Authentic Intelligence
Commentary, Memoir, Finding HopeCyn CarboneNovember 23, 2023commentary, gratitude, Rebecca Solnit, Stanley Kunitz, Jack Gilbert, Nick Cave, reflections, hope, current events, Thanksgiving, Jane Hirshfield, Walt Whitman, Louise Erdich, On BeingComment
Worldly Goods
Worldly Goods
Memoir, FriendsCyn CarboneNovember 15, 2023change, memoir, friends, transition, reflection, houses, stuffComment
Stations
Stations
Friends, MemoirCyn CarboneNovember 5, 2023memoir, trains, buses, friends, John O'Donohue, travel, Greyhound busComment
Let It Go
Let It Go
Family History, Memoir, Finding HopeCyn CarboneOctober 28, 2023memoir, grandparenting, wisdom, distance, dance, music, wonder, learningComment
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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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