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Not Making Sense
Not Making Sense
Friends, Memoir, Small Pleasures, Finding Hope, NatureCyn CarboneApril 6, 2024memoir, wisdom, friends, walks, Santa Barbara, Lompoc Comment
Both Feet on the Earth. Walking
Both Feet on the Earth. Walking
Memoir, Friends, Family HistoryCyn CarboneMarch 29, 2024memoir, walking, hiking, friends, wisdom, my father, Annie Ernaux, Mary Oliver Comments
Paper Piles and Files of Words
Paper Piles and Files of Words
Memoir, Friends, Books and publications, Family History, PoetryCyn CarboneMarch 25, 2024memoir, organization, Gaviota Writers, writing, files, friends, Jerry DiPego, Pablo Neruda, words, poetry, poemComment
Pivot
Pivot
Friends, Memoir, TravelCyn CarboneMarch 17, 2024Palm Springs, memoir, friends, trips, James Baldwin, women's marchComment
We Came As We Always Were: The DMS Reunion
We Came As We Always Were: The DMS Reunion
Friends, Memoir, Finding Hope, TeachingCyn CarboneMarch 5, 2024Dunn Middle School, teaching, friends, Los Olivos, memories, Treebeard, education, hope, reunionsComment
Home Game
Home Game
Memoir, Finding HopeCyn CarboneMarch 2, 2024Gaviota, walking, news, worry, T.C. Boyle, Abraham Verghese, rain, ranch life, Vista de las Cruces, memories, finding hopeComment
Weird But F—in’ Wonderful
Weird But F—in’ Wonderful
MemoirCyn CarboneFebruary 19, 2024Taylor Swift, Katherine Rundell, John Donne, friends, change, getting olderComment
Falling In Love With All of It
Falling In Love With All of It
Finding Hope, Friends, Memoir, Nature, Ranch LifeCyn CarboneFebruary 11, 2024gratitude, poetry, Linda Gregg, Elif Shafak, friendship, writing group, memoir, reflection, being here, wisdomComment
Windy With Heavy Rain Likely
Windy With Heavy Rain Likely
Friends, Ranch Life, MemoirCyn CarboneFebruary 4, 2024memoir, ranch life, rain, community 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 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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