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Head In The Clouds
Head In The Clouds
Finding Hope, Memoir, Family HistoryCyn CarboneFebruary 8, 2026memoir, my father, Mary Oliver, blessings, gratifudeComment
Portals
Portals
Finding Hope, MemoirCyn CarboneFebruary 2, 2026memoir, Groundhog Day, hope, protest, musicComment
Happiness (A Re-Run)
Happiness (A Re-Run)
MemoirCyn CarboneJanuary 18, 2026memoir, books, Niall Williams, Happiness Comment
Pollyanna
Pollyanna
Memoir, Finding Hope, Commentary, FriendsCyn CarboneJanuary 11, 2026Rebecca Solnit, Tolkien, protests, hopeComment
Unknown Duration
Unknown Duration
Commentary, Friends, MemoirCyn CarboneJanuary 5, 2026Solvang, rain, walking, Jeanne, friends, hope, memoir, Jackson Browne, wisdomComment
Not Out of Sorrow, But In Wonder
Not Out of Sorrow, But In Wonder
Memoir, Family HistoryCyn CarboneDecember 27, 2025memoir, family, Czeslaw Milosz, Solvang, Christmas, wonderComment
Getting A Handel On Things
Getting A Handel On Things
Finding Hope, Memoir, Small PleasuresCyn CarboneDecember 21, 2025memoir, music, Handel's Messiah, Christmas, hope, Solvang, GaviotaComment
Interiors
Interiors
Memoir, Family HistoryCyn CarboneDecember 13, 2025memoir, moving, home, home decor, change, family history, Seamus HeaneyComment
Why Not Be Beautiful?
Why Not Be Beautiful?
Finding Hope, MemoirCyn CarboneDecember 7, 2025memoir, W.S. Merwin, Cleve Jones, moving, arriving, sense of placeComment
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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