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Don’t Lose Sight
Don’t Lose Sight
Memoir, Friends, Nature, Ranch Life, TeachingCyn CarboneMarch 11, 2025Treebeard, Marc Kummel, wisdom, Bonny Mcclain, On BeingComment
Notes From The Vestibule
Notes From The Vestibule
Finding Hope, Memoir, Ranch Life, CommentaryCyn CarboneMarch 2, 2025getting older, birthdays, caretakers, nature, ranch life, friends, wisdom, Gaviota Comments
With This Knowledge
With This Knowledge
Memoir, Friends, Family HistoryCyn CarboneFebruary 22, 2025memoir, poetry, Ranch life, Gaviota writers, family history, friends, community, Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver, Alberto RiosComment
Your Astonishing Light
Your Astonishing Light
Commentary, Finding Hope, MemoirCyn CarboneFebruary 15, 2025memoir, politics, commentary, Robert Hubbell, Wendell Berry, Hafiz, coping, democracy, nature, the grace of the world, Nyall WilliamsComment
Using The Sorrow
Using The Sorrow
Commentary, Finding Hope, MemoirCyn CarboneFebruary 9, 2025sorrow, resistance, memoir, letters, pain, family, coping, Rebecca Solnit, Mary Osborne, Salman Rushdie, Mary Oliver, Brian ColkerComment
Turning Point
Turning Point
Memoir, On Writing, Finding Hope, TravelCyn CarboneFebruary 1, 2025cotswolds, england, travel, commentary, kindness, family, finding hope, calfornia, groundhog day, candlemas
Rainy Reflections
Rainy Reflections
Commentary, Memoir, TravelCyn CarboneJanuary 26, 2025memor, oxford, trains, rain, church, prayer, gabriel valdez, reflections, commentary
Bewildered
Bewildered
Travel, Commentary, Finding Hope, Memoir, PoetryCyn CarboneJanuary 17, 2025wendell berry, wendell berry, david whyte, friends, making sense, family history, oxford
In Oxford
In Oxford
Cyn CarboneJanuary 12, 2025memoir, travel, travel, grandparenting, family, oxford
Newer Older
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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