Valentine's Day and a Goat Tail. I Mean Tale.
He’s managed to steal another base and the game plays on.
Anna Blake
Weekly Photo Challenge: Time
It would be a good thing to make friends with time. In these last years, I think it’s the thing the Grandfather Horse has worked hardest to teach me. Here’s the math: He’s 30 this year, roughly the age I was when we met. He’s been retired now for as many years as I rode … Read more
A Reminder about Horse Memory.
The temps were mild. No one was shedding but the geldings were sunbathing flat and I was able to chip away at some ice-age muck. I even found a fly in the house. For a moment, it felt possible that winter would end. It was a fib; just the first part of the annual bait-and-switch … Read more
Weekly Photo Challenge: Vibrant
We are facing a storm today. It’s all white-white; white fog, white snow, white breath. Winter is that time the most vibrant thing we have here is memory, and so that is what I’ll post; a memory of sky and water, while we wait for a color–any color–to return. Hurry Spring. Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. … Read more
How to Stop Feeling the Rub of Judgment.
Less correction, more direction–it works on us, too.
You Have a Book In You
It’s all just so romantic. And such a lie.
Photo Challenge: Optimistic
“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” –Dalai Lama Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. (WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to share a photo–I enjoy twisting these macro prompts to share our micro life here on the Colorado prairie. My photos are taken with my phone, on my farm. No psych, definitely not high tech.) … Read more
Starting Back After a Winter's Rest.
Humans have creative thought and the chances of having a runaway in our own minds is better than in the saddle.
Relaxed & Forward: Available Monday!
I’m ringing the dinner bell; come and get it!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Alphabet
Alphabet? I’ll give you alphabet–thousands of times over! My second book, Relaxed & Forward: Relationship Advice from Your Horse is a collection of essays from this blog and it’s available today! Online (here) or a snail mail signed copy (here). These WP photo prompts slay me. It’s fun to manipulate them to fit my … Read more