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A Walk With Friends

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"All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me." Kurt Vonnegut

Friends, Ranch Life, Small PleasurescynthiaApril 25, 2014photo, Kurt Vonnegut, walks, wonder, Ranch lifeComment
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Poetry, Ranch LifecynthiaApril 26, 2014neighbors, neighborhood, Harrington, Rpm S, otj., Easter, Hollister Ranch, California history, ranch life, friends, the train, nature, poetry, song
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Ninety-One

Memoir, Family HistorycynthiaApril 24, 2014aging, eldercare, elderly parents, figuring things out, memories, wisdom, Jane Gross, assisted living, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, my mother, Esther Carbone, birthdays, love, patience, kindness, elders
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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