A Fearsome Beauty: Simple Gifts

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Simple Gifts

It's not a good picture, but all the boarders received these bookmarks for Christmas. E made them, and her drawings of the horses captures each of them perfectly. Scout, wind whipping her mane back, wind generated by her speedy, high-tension personality. Seal-brown Sam, still finding his way, chewing fence rails down from time to time. Canadian Molly, years off the track, 22 years old and retired, hard to keep good weight on. Faithful JR, protector of riders, hard mouthed and kind. Tiny Gambler, bombproof Arab, tireless at 20. My doofus, Dar, braying his new-found splendor to the world. The Keely monster, always blustering at us with her pinned ears, which are just a silly facade.

Seven inmates running a charming asylum where I can always recover my sanity, if only for a while.

1 comment:

Beth said...: Thanks so much for your comments on my blog. I always like them :)I look forward to reading your blog too.

Those bookmarks are really very cool and very thoughtful!; March 5, 2010 at 8:17 PM

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About This Journal

I began this journal to think through my experience with a mare I bought in 2004, after years away from riding, and then my start-over with a gelding I acquired in 2009. The one horse shook my confidence as a rider; I hoped to rebuild it with the other. I eventually gave back the horse I thought could help me overcome my anxiety and there before me stood again the horse with whom I choked in the first place.

It sounds like I traveled in a circle, yet not only did I change, but in 2010 I bought another horse, a kind, affectionate Appendix mare who seemed to fall from the sky. "Third time's a charm," they say. It was true for me in love, now let it be true in horses.

I strive to write truthfully about fear, doubt and tension, among other things, difficult subjects to talk about without being self-serving or cheaty. But I tend to dig deep (though it may be little more than scab picking). If you can relate to what I'm talking about, you're welcome to read along and comment whenever you like. Thanks for visiting.