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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,...
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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...
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Thankful for You.

  I'm doing something different today, in the spirit of Thanksgiving. When I started my blog, almost eight years ago...
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Photo Challenge: Tiny

Feel that tiny instant just after the thrust, the silence of soaring with hooves thundering down below. The push of...
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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...
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Photo Challenge: Transmogrify

Time and shadow blurred our edges until we became each other in a shared breath never fully exhaled. Anna Blake...
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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...
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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...
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Photo Challenge: Local

As vast as mountains silhouetted and layered angled across the horizon. As close as whispers of breath, nostril to flank,...
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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...
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