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    • What do horses dream of?

      If a horse had goals for themselves, what do you think they would be? Would they aspire to being the greatest at jumping with a human on their back? Winner of the most money? Fastest on a dirt track? Or would they have dreams of their own? What matters most to them? What does a…

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    • Stress-free Equine Event Planning? Breaking it Down

      It’s the day after Independence Day in the US, and a lot of us were sitting with our anxious animals while fireworks went off around our homes and barns. I used to enjoy fireworks a lot more when I didn’t have any worries about a horse running through a fence or stall guard in panic…

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    • Increasing Understanding

      I keep forgetting to update words in the midst of all the things happening in real life. The issue is, the things in real life are still too “everyday grind” to spark any great words. I don’t have any inspiration for you today, but I do have a small moment in time that I found…

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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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    • 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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