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    • Big News!

      Fantastic news! I am excited to announce that Standing in a Field With Horses is becoming an audiobook! Now you will be able to listen to the book while you drive, do chores, or even fall asleep to it. Audiobooks allow the freedom to listen on the go, which I didn’t fully appreciate until I…

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    • Clouds and Horses

      I regularly listen to a podcast called The Emerald. It’s one of my favorite animist/spirituality podcasts, part informative, part future-dreaming, meaning searching, trance-inducing journey through cultures and environments both foreign and familiar to me. This latest one, On Clouds and Cosmic Law, held significance because it relates very intimately to what I’m going through now.…

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    • The Third Body

      My life has been barely controlled chaos for the past few weeks, but it now seems to be giving me enough of a breather that I’m able to form coherent thoughts. Thoughts of things that I’d never considered in horse/human relationships before, because it’d never been so glaring. Mildly stealing from the title of a…

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    • Changing Worry

      I walked Rex for the first time in almost two months and found that I had changed. Between an illness, a new project at work picking up, and leasing a horse again, I had not been able to do more than stop to visit with Rex in the pasture for a few minutes every week…

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    • Riding the Line

      In working with horses I’ve been lucky enough not to run up against time limits very often. Time limits like “we have to get this horse ready for this show,” or “the farrier comes in two weeks and if this horse can’t be trimmed then it’s feet will start degrading before the farrier comes around…

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    • When “Truths” are a Lie

      One of the hardest parts of understanding horse welfare has been the lies and omissions that pervade equestrian activities. Shortly after I took my first riding lesson I went to watch a four star eventing competition. I studied the professional sport riders, hoping to see what “real” riding looked like. However, I was confused by…

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    • Celebrating a Year of Standing in a Field With Horses

      It’s been just past a year since I first released my book in eBook form. Since then more than 200 people have at least purchased my book, if not read it. More folks in the horse world have begun trying to figure out how to change the way they relate to horses. More have simply…

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    • New Herds, New Discoveries

      It’s been so many weeks since I last posted. I think whatever algorithms drive social media traffic have probably forgotten about me, but oh well. Sometimes things in real life are moving fast and you just don’t have any words that can be shared with a wide audience. That’s fine. I’ve been getting to know…

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    • Dark Season

      Well daylight savings time ending has hit me like a truck, as it does every year. Those of us who have full time jobs outside of horses must squeeze in horse time in the cold and dark. The horses are fuzzy and don’t fit any of their tack, the barn cats are instantly in the…

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    • Fall is Book Reading Season!

      It’s November, and we’ve had chilly weather here on the east coast for the past few days. Soup weather. Cozy blanket weather. Book weather. It’s also time for me to begin thinking about holiday gifts for friends and family. It sneaks up on me every year, and by December I’m always so busy.  If you’re…

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