RELAXED AND FORWARD: Since 2010, an archive of weekly horse training essays. My dogs say it's their turn now. Happy to oblige, it's all affirmative. Including words from a gray mare on the fine art of aging cantankerously.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Victory
Victory: Every day that I get to stand right here. (Passion is the easy part. Living with it is the...
The Grandfather Horse: When Animals Have Pets…
I have a bone to pick with my Grandfather Horse. He stole my goat. It's hard to complain. Spirit's been...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Ornate
An autumn shrubbery, ornate as a paisley tapestry, is gone on the wind, Rustling ahead of a polar flip toward...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Careful
Be careful to listen; careful to draw close on navy blue nights. Let the clouds be a nearness of spirit...
Health Insurance and Horse Dreams
Foot surgery this Friday--it's like preparing for a trip that I don't get to take. All the stress of canceling...
Weekly Photo Challenge: (Extra)ordinary
(Extra)ordinary: Maybe it's a choice; just a fuller way of embracing the ordinary. If we keep our eyes fresh and...
On Being an Old Gray Mare With Chronic Lameness
It's a shooting pain. Usually my foot is brick-tight and I can't bend my toes. When I do manage to...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy Place
It's no surprise--my Happy Place is always with the herd. Here's the Grandfather Horse. I'm hoping winter will be kind...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Boundaries
Arthur is very pleased to note that I have placed 'goat nests' in the runs. And if that isn't enough,...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Grid
A fence is a grid of separation. It's used to keep some of us inside and to keep others of...
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