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Getting Through
Getting Through
Family History, Memoir, Finding Hope, Ranch LifeCyn CarboneNovember 26, 2024gratitude, Thanksgiving, love, finding meaning, ranch life, grandparenting, memoir, familyComment
Maybe We Shall Know Each Other Better
Maybe We Shall Know Each Other Better
Finding Hope, Memoir, Commentary, PoetryCyn CarboneNovember 23, 2024memoir, poetry, Louis MacNiece, finding hope, grief, wonder, my daughter, wisdom, being olderComment
In The Days That Followed
In The Days That Followed
Memoir, Commentary, Finding HopeCyn CarboneNovember 15, 2024memoir, post-election, finding hope, nature, willa cather., timothy snyder Comments
Notes From  A Broken Place
Notes From A Broken Place
Finding Hope, Memoir, CommentaryCyn CarboneNovember 7, 2024election, memoir, Rebecca Solnit, William Stafford, Kit Cossart, EB White, Barbara Kingsolver, grief, hope Comments
In A River of Light
In A River of Light
Cyn CarboneNovember 2, 2024 Comments
At This Stage
At This Stage
Cyn CarboneOctober 24, 2024David Whyte, memoir, politics, election, friends, wisdom, Kabuki normality, anger, joy, Jonathan V. LastComment
A Day of Awe
A Day of Awe
Family History, Finding Hope, MemoirCyn CarboneOctober 12, 2024memoir, religion, Judaism, Yom Kippur, my father, my mother, Jeff Greenwald, wisdom, hope, teshuva, T.S. EliotComment
Sharp Shooter
Sharp Shooter
MemoirCyn CarboneOctober 6, 2024memoir, music, daughters, violinComment
Jewel
Jewel
Memoir, Ranch LifeCyn CarboneSeptember 23, 2024memoir, memories, walks, Chicago, nature, owls, coyotes Comments
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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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