Ever feel like you wish you could remember Just One Thing from a certain experience, like your riding lesson? Just one thing. Just one itty bitty thing that would actually stick in your brain and slop over into the next week. I sure wish that would happen to me!
Today, out at Avalon, I rode Stalker again [...]
Since I’m so new at this and since my good friend Dawn likes WordPress, I’m changing blogging environments. No problems with Blogger at all. I do admit to enjoying the look of an add-free blog, even though advertisements about making money with blogs got my attention (but in an ironical sort of way — there’s [...]
The Potato
Last week, Leah commented on my stiffness and tension as I was riding Stalker. *sigh*. I’ve been stiff and tense since … well I was like that in the womb. It was a huge bother at the time to my mom and I was in several obstetric journals in 1960 due to the [...]
In my Ideal Stable, the birds fly quietly and invisibly, getting on with their bird-life which presumably includes the devouring of bugs. They swoop, yes, because they are birds and they have the right to swoop, but they do not flutter in a way that spooks the horses. They call to each other but without [...]
When I watch a kid riding, I get taken out of myself. I’m full of happiness in a great, basic, rock-bottom sort of way. There’s nothing goopy going on here, I swear, nothing mawkish or sentimental. I’m amazed when it happens, the increadible rush of simple joy. And it happened this Saturday out in Plain [...]
I realized how much I depend on 12-year-old girls when I first started taking lessons almost 2 years ago. I was getting the tack on my horse and I was fumbling or dropping things or doing something awkward when a girl (I think she was 12 — 14 at the most) asked me if she [...]
