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Calming Signals and Pain

  First, last, and always, make sure your horse is sound.  That's the warning that any decent equine professional gives...
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Thanksgiving from a Cowboy Girl

You could tell it was the 1980's because I'd done something with my hair that made me look like a...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Experimental

They live with us now, hooves half in their own history and half in ours, so closely inbred that our...
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Trust: A Suspension of Disbelief.

You love horses. No, you really, really love horses. Because they are so amazing. We share videos of blind horses cared...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Temporary

He has walked on from this place into memory, this creature of heart and spirit. He can't remember a time...
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Circles: A Soft Bend

I'd led a sheltered life. I was thirty years old before I visited my first Saddlebred barn. I was just...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Peek

  Did he want to be invisible? As still as wood, his head holds solitude in the corner. This bay...
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The Middle Path: Why Gaits Matter

Let's say you like to jump and so does your Arabian. Let's say you do endurance on an Appaloosa. Let’s...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Rounded

  The whorl beneath a forelock, the velvet comma nostrils, the curve of a neck, the serpentine of a spine,...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Glow

The sun hurries now, eager to be gone. A chill breeze scatters the last embers of fall, crisp leaves layer...
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