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Storyteller
Storyteller
MemoirCyn CarboneSeptember 20, 2024memoir, grandson, Felix, grandparenting, story telling Comment
Saturday Morning Walk
Saturday Morning Walk
Memoir, Ranch LifeCyn CarboneSeptember 15, 2024walks, ranch life, memoir, natureComment
You Can Go Now, Mommy
You Can Go Now, Mommy
MemoirCyn CarboneSeptember 15, 2024memoir, daughters grow up, school, parenting, memories, childhood, MirandaComment
Distance
Distance
MemoirCyn CarboneSeptember 8, 2024miranda, daughters, growing up, change, distance, grandson, felix, memoir, Ruth Ozeki, Merwin, Dylan ThomasComment
The Thickness of Water
The Thickness of Water
Memoir, FriendsCyn CarboneSeptember 7, 2024friendship, family history, friends, memoirComment
On Labor Day
On Labor Day
Family History, Memoir, PoetryCyn CarboneAugust 31, 2024memoir, my father, workers, Labor Day, Sharon OldsComment
In Limbo
In Limbo
Memoir, Friends, Ranch LifeCyn CarboneAugust 29, 2024the ranch, memoir, ambiguity, neighbors, change, Wendell BerryComment
Round Here
Round Here
Cyn CarboneAugust 25, 2024
In My Polka-Dot Dress
In My Polka-Dot Dress
Memoir, Ranch LifeCyn CarboneAugust 16, 2024memoir, Wordsworth, Nina Schuyler, Buddhism, Martin Buber, wisdom, ChumashComment
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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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