A Story of Addiction, Dysfunction, Codependency… and Horses
I'm really not. The Club Hippique website is quaintly translated into English, and the number of forms that need downloading before you can even set your foot in a stirrup is mind boggling. Or not, if you know anything about French bureaucracy. A nice portmanteau word, that: bureau and crazy. I think I'd investigated this …
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I just need to take better care of the ones I've got. Because I haven't taken the best care of them, the toes are separating a bit from the sole. I don't clean them properly either; despite the crazy wet weather, even during the winter, I haven't had to scrape off mud and poo and …
...brazened it out in the middle of the field. Maybe not. All the other snappers had lenses as long as my leg. Ah, the Committee Stand. It was gas.
I DO NOT NEED NEW BOOTS I do not need new boots, I do not need new boots, I do not need new boots... Even though I had gotten off the 130 to head for the 7, I was feeling equivocal about going to the horse show again. I had had quite a lot of …
I thought, since I'd done this last year, that I'd be better prepared for the equine avalanche that is the Dublin Horse show. I was wrong. I didn't hit the Royal Dublin Society [RDS] — a huge, sprawling expo-type place — 'til around noon, but that actually made it more intense, more people everywhere, a …
EVER, EVER, EVER, IN THE HISTORY OF DAYS! As I walked up to the gate of Festina Lente, I wondered where I should go, to make my presence known, that I was there, whether I should go up to Jill's office— And there she was, crossing behind the gate, and we waved, and I went …
It's the kind of rain that Ireland has elevated to an art form: a drizzling flurry of precipitation that encourages one to eschew hood and brolly, but that, nevertheless, results in a good soaking. The mountains were wreathed in mist, the sky a bowl of gray laying directly on the top of one's head, with …
THORSEDAY So, this is how it all panned out: My phone alarm went off at 6 a.m. I shut it down. My back up went at 6.30. A grudging rise, and the usual morning activity ensued: coffee, shower, email. Oops, 7.30. Had to get the first bus fairly sharpish, to get the second at 8.10. …
'Are you going to the horse show?' Yes, I am. 'Are you going shopping?' Yes, I aaaammmmmmm! The Dublin Horse Show kicked off yesterday, and I'm working my little fingers off to meet my deadlines, and get there tomorrow, and go shopping! New jodhs! New boots! A new hat! And a comb and brush to …
So, the whole reason I got into the horseriding was because I wanted to Reiki horses. I've been studying/practicing Reiki — an energetic, complementary healing modality — since 1999, but haven't been drawn to working on people. People: they ask all kinds of questions, expect you to fix them... to be honest, I've haven't had …
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