Photo Challenge: Grace-ful
It's an intimate moment, a recognition of soul, held and acknowledged, then returned in kind. Softly now, abide. .... Anna Blake at...
Climate Change: Not Just Bad for Polar Bears.
Farm kids, like me, learn early that a healthy anxiety about the weather is the subtext of every task--from lambing season, to...
Photo Challenge: Ambience
It’s the pastel light, the thin clear air, and a shared breath so deep and sweet: Even as I travel...
Safety and Being a Spoil Sport.
I'm a riding instructor. Wait, it's worse than that. A riding instructor who has read the small print of her liability...
Remembrance: Someone's Always Dying
It's that weird week between the holidays. I never know what day it is so I mess up scheduling around Christmas,...
The Politics of Holiday Pie
Inconceivable: I'm going to share my pie recipe. I'll pause and give my friends time to pick themselves up. They know...
Photo Challenge: Anticipation
Long shadows at noon, cramped days slip to bitter nights this dark solstice. Waiting for new light a minute at a time....
Riding a Suspension… of Disbelief
Some of us are okay with who we are in the saddle. We don't question the ride, or if we do,...
Mental Focus Means Not Trying Too Hard
My friend and I took yoga while we were in high school. It was 1971 or so, and I can't...
Thankful for You.
I'm doing something different today, in the spirit of Thanksgiving. When I started my blog, almost eight years ago...
Photo Challenge: Tiny
Feel that tiny instant just after the thrust, the silence of soaring with hooves thundering down below. The push of...
Bite Your Tongue.
It's an election year and I'm a politics geek. There, I said it. But the rhetoric is deafening. Sometimes there...
Photo Challenge: Transmogrify
Time and shadow blurred our edges until we became each other in a shared breath never fully exhaled. Anna Blake...
Going the Full Heart Distance: Saying So Long
It's deep fall here on our farm. Most of the leaves are gone; Canada geese are on the wing. Each...
The Best Reasons to Stop Riding
I think I've heard all the clichés about change that I can stand. At a certain age, we don't...
Photo Challenge: Local
As vast as mountains silhouetted and layered angled across the horizon. As close as whispers of breath, nostril to flank,...
Riding the Inside of Your Horse
When I was just a dressage-princess-wannabe, before I became a full-blown Dressage Queen, I thought dressage riders all wore a kind...
A Serenity Prayer For Both of You
The seasons are changing and the air feels cooler. That's what you notice, but your horse seems just a bit...
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