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Photo Challenge: Growth (of a Kind)

Euthanasia is never easy, but it can be less punishing. The secret is to focus on love instead of loss....
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Sanity & Sanitary

Fingers in the worn glove curve to meet the shape of the wooden handle in my palm. Muck boots shuffle,...
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Weekly Photo & Poem: Favorite

  Her years on flat open prairie, the hard-scrap jumble of danger and chance left only the essentials: skeptical wisdom,...
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Photo Challenge and Poem: Ascend

Riding looks as easy as sliding a boot into a stirrup and throwing a leg over the horse's back. As...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Cheeky

He's a goat who's had a bit of a weight problem since the cast came off. A free spirit, butting...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Serene

The cowboys I knew didn't dress like the movies. No neckerchiefs or fancy Mexican spurs. They wore easy smiles under...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Transformation

  The old gelding's eye sockets are hollow or maybe he's pulled his gaze inward. Once a trumpet blast of...
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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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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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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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