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Nube: How a Horse Taught Me a Canter Cue

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The short version is that my horse poked me in my sit bone, which isn’t possible, is it? But let’s start at the beginning because both my Grandfather Horse and Nube are gone now. And it’s fall, that bittersweet season.  A friend had asked to ride my Grandfather Horse. He was just Spirit then, a … Read more

Photo & Poem: Spine to Spine

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His back is not solid, nerves run between banks of muscle, each vertebra linked to the next, from the base of his skull to the end of his tail. A horse’s strength is rhythm, each hoof initiating a wave when it takes to the air, a surge of energy rolling up through his hind, my … Read more