Healing Is Possible

Gifts

Gifts

  I first published this article December 2007 in From the Horse’s Mouth magazine and have been sharing it yearly ever since. I hope you enjoy it.   The season of gift-giving is upon us. Some of us will frantically search for just the right gift, the gift that says just the right thing, expresses …

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Cruelty Free

Cruelty Free

I know that everyone reading this blog is a lover of animals; none of us would knowingly do anything to harm them, and most of us weep at the thought of them being mistreated. For the past couple of days, a short video has been making the rounds among my Facebook friends. It shows young …

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Learning to Listen

Learning to Listen

  True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation. –  Joseph Addison   I’ve joined a wonderful group of people who for the next year are going to be discussing, and working through, Karen Armstrong’s book Twelve Steps to a Compassionate …

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Live Each Day

Live Each Day

  Her horse is doing fine now, living outside, eating a nutritious diet; he is happy and full of energy. Still, she worries. Her horse is prone to melanomas. A few years ago, he had a severe patch of them growing under his tail, growing inward as well as outward. They were removed, at great …

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Lessons from a Horse Fair

Lessons from a Horse Fair

Respect I didn’t notice her at first. Her friend had walked up to my booth with a big smile, her $5 donation in hand (to be given to Wild Horse Rangers), asking for her mini- Reiki treatment. She sat in the chair so eagerly, I assumed she had experienced a Reiki treatment before. But, no, …

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Coming to Terms

Coming to Terms

The Move It turns out that Oreo is a really nice mare. You couldn’t have convinced me of that 10 days ago, though, when I moved my gelding, Fuersti, and my mare, Tara, to the herd that Oreo leads. Tara and Fuersti had been living together, just the two of them, for four years on …

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