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Anna Blake

The Middle Path: Discipline

January 19, 2018 by Anna Blake

“… not wanting to be a namby-pamby nag.”

Categories Calming Signals, horse advocate, Horses/Equestrian, Relaxed and Forward Dressage, The Middle Place: Finding Balance Tags #listeningtohorses, #positivetraining, confident leadership, dominance verses partnership, how to train confidence, punishing horses Leave a comment

Photo Challenge & Poem: Weathered

January 15, 2018 by Anna Blake

Cold hands.

Categories Farm Life, Farm Poems, Horses/Equestrian, Weekly Photo Challenge Tags #HorsePrayers, #inthemoment, rhythm and relaxation, trot in snow., win Leave a comment

Your Horse Loves Arena Riding

January 12, 2018 by Anna Blake

#funktionslust

Categories Calming Signals, Horses/Equestrian, Relaxed and Forward Dressage, The Art of Riding Tags #arenabliss, #funktionslust, #ridingwell, happy in the arena, make the arena a sanctuary, my horse hates the arena 35 Comments

Photo Challenge: Growth (of a Kind)

January 9, 2026January 8, 2018 by Anna Blake

Grappling with the Infinite through a peep-hole in my speck-of-dust life.

Categories Farm Life, Farm Poems, Weekly Photo Challenge Tags #rescuedonkey, 2018 photo challenge, donkey elder, love and mourning, saying goodbye Leave a comment

End the Strike Now! And a Poetry Book Coming.

January 7, 2018 by Anna Blake

2017 was a mean year.

Categories annablake.com Tags #newbook, #nomudwrestling, #poetryinthebarn, #writingbooks, writers needed 18 Comments

Middle Path: The Curse of a Self-Aware Mind

January 5, 2018 by Anna Blake

If humans were on an inter-species dating site, they would not link us up with horses.

Categories Horses/Equestrian, Relaxed and Forward Dressage, The Art of Riding, The Middle Place: Finding Balance Tags #howhorsesthink, #ridingwell, awareness vs. consciousness, Breath is connection, breathe to relax your horse Leave a comment

Photo Challenge & Poem: Sanity & Sanitary

January 2, 2018 by Anna Blake

Mucking for Mental Health

Categories Farm Life, Farm Poems, Weekly Photo Challenge Tags #muckingthoughts, #mucktherapy, horse manure, mucking for Peace Leave a comment

EOY P&L: Life, Death, and Tears

December 29, 2017 by Anna Blake

Making peace with monsterous pain.

Categories Farm Life, Horses/Equestrian, Opinion From the Mounting Block..., The Middle Place: Finding Balance Tags #compassionfatigue, #makingpeace, making peace with death, natural horse life 158 Comments

Weekly Photo & Poem: Favorite

December 27, 2017 by Anna Blake

Lilith.

Categories Edgar Rice Burro, Donkey Universe, Farm Poems, Weekly Photo Challenge Tags #donkeymentor, #donkeywisdom, #rescuedonkey, 2017 photo challenge Leave a comment

Talking Animals at Midnight

December 15, 2024December 22, 2017 by Anna Blake

A holiday message, from one who doesn’t celebrate.

Categories Calming Signals, Farm Life, Horses/Equestrian, The Middle Place: Finding Balance Tags #horsesolstice, #talkinghorses, coping with holidays., talking horses, winter solstice Leave a comment
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