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There's Music In Us
There's Music In Us
Memoir, Finding Hope, CommentaryCyn CarboneJune 29, 2026music, Grey Bear Erickson, Joachim Cooder, Chumash, Lompoc, Lin-Manuel Miranda, songs, America the Beautiful, Paul Simon, immigrantsComment
Tripping
Tripping
Memoir, Friends, Finding HopeCyn CarboneJune 22, 2026road trip, 1970s, hope, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Jackson Browne, political commentaryComment
Light and Memories (An Old Post)
Light and Memories (An Old Post)
MemoirCyn CarboneJune 15, 2026Dreams, memories, Pico Iyer, Ferlinghetti, Ranch life, Camus, insomniaComment
Faith Formation
Faith Formation
Memoir, Finding HopeCyn CarboneJune 8, 2026Solvang, Santa Ynez Mission, interactions, wisdom, angerComment
Yearning
Yearning
Memoir, Finding Hope, CommentaryCyn CarboneJune 1, 2026memoir, John O'Donohue, Devin Kelly, Helene Cixous, childhood, dreams Comments
Who I Used To Be
Who I Used To Be
Finding Hope, Memoir, Friends, CommentaryCyn CarboneMay 25, 2026resistance, politics, hope, Robert Hubbell, Lightworkers, Matt Moberg, poetry, Movement Voter Project Comments
At The Launch Pad of Souls
At The Launch Pad of Souls
Memoir, Nature, Ranch LifeCyn CarboneMay 9, 2026Memoir, Change, Ranch life, Ranch scenes, Home, PlaceComment
In The Course of The Week
In The Course of The Week
Friends, Memoir, Finding Hope, CommentaryCyn CarboneMay 4, 2026memoir, Chumash, commentary, comfort, aging, challenges, wisdom, finding hope, friendship Comment
Offerings
Offerings
Memoir, Nature, PoetryCyn CarboneApril 23, 2026local history, Chumash, Earth Day, Gaviota, Ada Limon, Fernando LibradoComment
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 Ranch roads on this late summer morning... red vein 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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