Hello readers, My apologies for the lack of original content in recent months, I’ve been finding my ponderings more internal and less ready for publication… However that is shifting as we move into a new year and a new season. Meanwhile, here is a video of K and I taken recently as we breached theContinue reading “Letting go…”
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Adverse Conditions
It was hard not to consider this admitting defeat and total failure. Because that’s exactly what it felt like, and I am not one to admit defeat easily. I told myself years ago I would NOT allow work with my horses to become a win-lose scenario. I am not in this to make my horses into losers.
The other side of trouble
What grieved me as I watched Wyoming flailing on that lead rope like a fish on a line was a snapshot I had somewhere in my heart of how many of us go through life or seasons of life like this. We are fighting and we can’t seem to stop fighting. We end up getting hurt, and hurting those around us while we flail and fight against what we perceive as life threatening pressure but what is intended to be a comfort.
Mind or Meat
Endurance News Summer Extra just printed this article I wrote, since it’s been officially published I can now share it here for my own readers. Anyone who’s attended an endurance event has heard the conversation with the rider who has the horse that pulls their shoulders out of joint, determined to run at the fastestContinue reading “Mind or Meat”
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Change is possible…
Change is possible… but it has to begin with me.
Do you want to know a secret?
But did I love the horse? I wanted to. I thought I did, and maybe I did in part, but not the way I have come to recently.
The weight of a thought.
We were released with a couple other riders, and there were a couple just behind. This seemed set up well to help us motivate out into the long middle loop, and if we could just get past the magnetic thought field of base camp I knew she’d go along fine. Or so I thought… this did not look good at all…
Get busy livin’
I suppose it’s good that I’ve left her to benign neglect for the last year as she was not well, because I didn’t know how to help her, so letting her rest was probably not a bad season. Yet she’s come to a holding pattern where she hasn’t told me she’s ready to die, and yet she is still quite unwell. And I can’t see leaving her alone there any longer. As the quote goes (from the Shawshank Redemption) It’s time to get busy living, or get busy dying.
For want of a forward thought
For want of a nail the shoe was lost.For want of a shoe the horse was lost.For want of a horse the rider was lost.For want of a rider the message was lost.For want of a message the battle was lost.For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.And all for the want of aContinue reading “For want of a forward thought”
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