The Power of Thor

Free worldbuilding idea:

“I can’t get this fucking spell to work, Jane, can you look it?”

You beat me to it! I was going to add that the reason why wizards and witches always have familiars around is so they can Rubber Duck at them until they realize what the mistake with their spell is!

I've heard that horses are actually omnivores instead of herbivores, or at least there is/was some debate about it. Is there any semblance of truth to that or are people just being assholes and spreading ridiculous "facts"? Also I was not aware that horses had horizontal pupils like goats.

Engagement

“I feel good with my husband: I like his warmth and his bigness and his being-there and his making and his jokes and stories and what he reads and how he likes fishing and walks and pigs and foxes and little animals and is honest and not vain or fame-crazy and how he shows his gladness for what I cook him and joy for when I make him something, a poem or a cake, and how he is troubled when I am unhappy and wants to do anything so I can fight out my soul-battles and grow up with courage and a philosophical ease. I love his good smell and his body that fits with mine as if they were made in the same body-shop to do just that. What is only pieces, doled out here and there to this boy and that boy, that made me like pieces of them, is all jammed together in my husband. So I don’t want to look around any more: I don’t need to look around for anything.”

“If I had to pick one simple bit of advice about training horses, it might well be this basic concept— We are not going to get very much accomplished on any given day, in any given training session, so don’t get so darn frantic about it. Meaning that if any of us went to the gym, and had a session with a personal trainer, would we expect to finish the session as an accomplished weight lifter, or an accomplished any type of athlete? No way. We know that it is a long, gradual process, a tiny bit of improvement, day by day, week by week, month by month. And yet, even knowing that, it is nonetheless easy to get “grindy” when trying to make progress with some poor horse. Over and over, the same requests, do it again, because you didn’t do it “right.” Now again. Now again. The horse gets tired and scared, the rider gets more demanding, and, as Yeats says in “The Second Coming,” “Things fall apart; The centre cannot hold;” If we don’t want things to fall apart, we need to ask (demand?) less on any given day, because even though we can not make much progress FORWARD in any given session, we can make big steps backwards, by creating fear and resistance. And this is the thing to realize. Forward progress is slower than backwards deterioration. It takes a heck of a lot less time to wreck a horse than to make a horse. And far less skill. Heck, anybody can wreck a horse. If there is ONE SINGLE THING that I wish my little pea brain had grasped sooner about horse training, it would be that simple truth.”

Wahoo! Signed up for the intro to nosework at silver level. I think we’d probably benefit more from gold, but I want to experience some of the Fenzi classes before I make that commitment

Update:

why does everyone make those relateable posts about depression meals and list stuff like, half a potato chip and forgetting eat but no one ever talks about the other half of people who overeat from depression? no one talks about gouging yourself with food the second you feel bad because somehow youre convinced food will make you feel better but it doesnt so you keep eating until it does? the weight gain? feeling sick from eating so much? eating an entire bag of chips and a whole carton of ice cream in one sitting without knowing it?? feeling even worse because youre making yourself so ill???