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Cynthia Yoder

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Here for all things writerly. I have three small press books out, including my memoir Crazy Quilt, and am finishing up a novel 📚📓 No hate. Love the world 🌎 🌈🐾 CynthiaYoder.com

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Cynthia Yoder @cynthiayoderauthor.bsky.social · Jul 11

My memoir re-launches today under this new cover. I’m glad I was brave to put this out years ago! If I’d write it today, I’d be softer on my dad…we made our amends. But now I write about those conversations separately! Thus is the nature of writing memoir.
#memoir #writingcommunity #books

Cover of Crazy Quilt: Pieces of a Mennonite Life showing a barn door and close-up photo of author in wedding dress and white hat.

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Cynthia Yoder @cynthiayoderauthor.bsky.social · 13h

I guess because my mom‘s passing anniversary is Tuesday, and she loved flowers, and tea with honey, this poem made me tear up! 💗

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Ellissa @ellissa.bsky.social · 3d

#haikuchallenge #balance #haiku #poem #poetry #blueskypoetry #flower #bloomscrolling #meditation #innerpeace

When balance is hard
I turn to my friend flower
To learn how to breathe

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Ellissa @ellissa.bsky.social · 10d

#haikufeels (young) #haiku #poem #poetry #blueskypoetry #stream #creek #writing #micropoetry

Dipping my toes
In the cool mountain stream
My younger self

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Cynthia Yoder @cynthiayoderauthor.bsky.social · 6d

This brings back good memories of my own cold toes in mountain streams!

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Cynthia Yoder @cynthiayoderauthor.bsky.social · 7d

I’m thinking wasps and a Stephen King book would kind of go together 😄🐝

Cynthia Yoder @cynthiayoderauthor.bsky.social · 7d

I’m a rusher but more like binge reader. I’m a slow reader but like to read a lot when I get in the mood!

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Happy Hippie Soul @happyhippiesoul.bsky.social · 13d

Some days arrive with noise and demands. Carry your calm like wildflowers in your pocket. Pause, breathe, smile at a stranger, and let your spirit bloom anyway. 🌿💛 #LiveSimply #PositiveVibes #HippieVibes #PeaceOfMind #Inspiration #Peace

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Cynthia Yoder @cynthiayoderauthor.bsky.social · 12d

Beautiful! Soothing fall vibes 😌

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⋆｡˚☆⋆Tré⋆☆˚｡⋆ @tregallery.com · 14d

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Golden Ribbon

Long road home
Dirt's golden ribbon
Through the woods

#BlueSkyArtShow #TheRoad
#EastCoastKin
#haikufeels #long

#haiku #俳句 #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Road #Wolftwin #Fall #Landscape

Golden Ribbon is a landscape photo I took on horseback, riding along a dirt road. To the left, a honey-gold meadow sways. On the right, a green line of forest is accented by red maples, dotting the distance. A dirt road with its median of tawny grass, growing between the tire tracks, cuts through both scenes and disappears into the woods ahead. Above, the sky is a gradient of cerulean to light blue. Across it, brushstrokes of stratus clouds wisp from right to left. It was a beautiful autumn day that inspired my modern 3-5-3 haiku:

Long road home
Dirt's golden ribbon
Through the woods

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Cynthia Yoder @cynthiayoderauthor.bsky.social · 17d

Generally, I am green 🌳🌲🌴 …meditation is the only reason that is true 😉

Cynthia Yoder @cynthiayoderauthor.bsky.social · 22d

It’s such a great story! 🐞🛌

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Cynthia Yoder @cynthiayoderauthor.bsky.social · 25d

Yes 😄. Both, actually. Self then I have someone who will go over it. 📝

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Cynthia Yoder @cynthiayoderauthor.bsky.social · 26d

😍 I think about this quote sometimes before breakfast! 🍳 😺🎩

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Fliddais @fliddais.bsky.social · 27d

Leaves starting to fall
A calm early morning chill
Warm blankets await

#emoetry #calm #haiku
#writingcommunity #blueskypoetry

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Cynthia Yoder @cynthiayoderauthor.bsky.social · 26d

This has nice fall vibes! 🙃🍁

Cynthia Yoder @cynthiayoderauthor.bsky.social · 26d

I finished the first draft, and now I’m revising sections and redoing some whole scenes.…basically the hardest part!!

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Cynthia Yoder @cynthiayoderauthor.bsky.social · 28d

That’s a great mix- rest with jotting ideas. I like it!

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Cynthia Yoder @cynthiayoderauthor.bsky.social · 29d

Wishing you peaceful weekend vibes. I’ll probably journal vs. doing WIP work. How bout u ?
#writingcommunity #AuthorLife #writinglife

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Dripping With Words | Intuitive Writer @drippingwithwords.bsky.social · Sep 9

..i walk obsidian-shades..in black nights.. if the moon’s taught me anything.. it’s how light-sparkles-loudest.. in the dark..

©️📸 WIP-dww

#thoughts #quotes #zen #light #trees #photography #moon #spirituality #amwriting #art #writingcommunity #nature #fullmoon #sky #tree #writesky #landscape #faith

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Cynthia Yoder @cynthiayoderauthor.bsky.social · Aug 30

So beautiful! ✨✨✨

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Louisa M Reid @lmaereid.bsky.social · Aug 28

Today’s #dawn went riffling through her closet to model a glittering cloak of stars, then draped her skies in rich scarves of color…
parading herself above an earth breathing out the last mists of cool night🌌🌄
#5amwritersclub
#WritingCommunity
#poetry
#dawnpatrol
#MorningWalk
#booksky
#photography

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Cynthia Yoder @cynthiayoderauthor.bsky.social · Jul 21

🥰 Thanks so much, Kacy!

Cynthia Yoder @cynthiayoderauthor.bsky.social · Jul 15

Maybe both?

Cynthia Yoder @cynthiayoderauthor.bsky.social · Jul 11

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Cynthia Yoder @cynthiayoderauthor.bsky.social · Jul 4

That’s wonderful! I tried a few years ago but had lost my muscle memory…maybe I’ll try again some other decade 😄