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I’m Gonna Be A Diamond Someday
I’m Gonna Be A Diamond Someday
Memoir, Finding HopeCyn CarboneJune 8, 2024memoir, walks, trying, Ted Martinez, friends, fog, wisdom, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, my motherComment
Lost
Lost
Memoir, Finding Hope, On Writing, PoetryCyn CarboneMay 30, 2024memoir, hiking, getting lost, poetry, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, memory, Lisel Mueller, Annie Ernaux, Sekou SundiataComment
The Anger In Me
The Anger In Me
Cyn CarboneMay 26, 2024anger, memoir, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Stafford, my father, grandson, wisdom, conflit, James Thurber, Buddhism, Rebecca Solnit
What It Meant
What It Meant
Friends, Memoir, On WritingCyn CarboneMay 16, 2024memoir, friends, Whidbey Island, Seattle, Aurora Borealis, Northern Lights, wonder, Patricia HamplComment
Prayer At Dawn
Prayer At Dawn
MemoirCyn CarboneMay 6, 2024grattude, wonder, musings, Eddie, Greg, love, Stanley KunitzComment
Field Trips
Field Trips
Memoir, TravelCyn CarboneMay 5, 2024Point Conception, wildflowers, botany, Andre Gide, William Stafford, memoir, field trips, Santa Barbara, gratitude, finding joyComment
On My Mother’s Birthday
On My Mother’s Birthday
Memoir, Family HistoryCyn CarboneApril 25, 2024memoir, family history, my mother, love, forgiveness, Esther Carbone, wisdomComment
Exulting Somewhat
Exulting Somewhat
Memoir, Friends, Nature, Poetry, Quarantine DiaryCyn CarboneApril 22, 2024walks, friends, Stanley Kunitz, poetry, The Layers, playing, saying yes, wonder
The Wonder and The Grief
The Wonder and The Grief
Memoir, Friends, Ranch LifeCyn CarboneApril 8, 2024loss, friends, wonder, grief, poetry, art, memoir, eclipseComment
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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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