A Story of Addiction, Dysfunction, Codependency… and Horses
Patti Smith's album, that is. Here’s an excerpt from Many Braves Fools, and the way the album contributed to me actually showing up for my first ever lesson 🐴🐴🐴… — The wee girls circled round and round, their legs pounding the sides of their ponies, and I was feeling breathless. As excited as I was …
Continue reading "In Honour of the 50th Anniversary of Horses"
🙄 Seriously, another 'thing' that is the answer to one's platform building questions? I've got Insta and Facebook and by extension, Threads, and TikTok. No more Twitter and don't miss it at all. I've got subscribers to my newsletter, and omg a YouTube which is just the most annoying thing to post to, holy wow. …
Back on my shizz. I noticed I was looking down again, as I went about my day. The difference between the two views is striking, and it reminded me of this excerpt from Many Brave Fools... *** Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley, a horsewoman, writes in her memoir A Year at the Races about how …
Hmmmm. It's not like I haven't tried, as a cursory search through this weblog will reveal more than one selfie with more than one horse. It only stands to reason that a selfie with a horse is an equie. Right? Even after all the horses with whom I've posed, it's just not catching on. Connell …
OR DO I? Off I went, to have my weirdly strong reading glasses checked, the ones I got before the Rona kicked off, and I was taking my usual informal poll of how many people were going about masked. Informal statistic: not many. On my corner sits a real estate agent whose plate glass windows …
Continue reading "I Need to Stop Talking to People Like They Are Horses"
I was cleaning out the inbox of one of my email addys [and forwarding some stuff to another one LOL] when I came across the below. This is from 2018 which in 2020 time-framing is exactly one million years ago. I had started writing about this while away from my desk; I sent it to …
Continue reading "On Replacement Horses and Not Freaking Out"
I began this post on 21st May. I'm leaving it as and adding to it now, in June. *** Horses give out only that which they receive because, as prey, they are prepared to react to changes in their surroundings. They have evolved as a species due to this alertness and preparedness. “Horses have ensured …
Continue reading "Started Talking About Fear in May; In June, Black Lives Matter"
In honour of hoping that the two long sticks I have hidden are still where I put them when lessons are back on. *** September, 2012 A couple of weeks ago — see, I didn't even bother writing about this, because honestly, this is like the eleventy billionth post on this topic. A couple of …
Continue reading "The Crop Chronicles: If You Love Something, Set it Free…"
Not that it's a good thing. It's what we're all missing during this sheltering in place/self-isolation time. With the lack of human contact—and additionally in my case, contact with the horses—the production of endogenous opiates is way down, if not gone. I'm trying to get topped up on negative ions from being by the sea, …
The worst days are the ones when I ought to be up the yard. As a writer and freelancer, I'm good at managing my time. I have stuff to get done and I know how much energy each task takes, and, more likely, how much anxiety I have to be generating around a deadline until …
MANY BRAVE FOOLS 