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Pollyanna

Pollyanna

Memoir, Finding Hope, Commentary, FriendsCyn CarboneJanuary 11, 2026Rebecca Solnit, Tolkien, protests, hopeComment

Lines and reflections

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

Ranch roads on this late summer morning...

veterinary lesson

best kind of welcome

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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