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The Middle Path: Lighten Up, It’s All Your Fault

Sometimes people tell me that I’m preaching to the choir with my blog. That it’s the other “really creepy horse people” who need to read my blog. But then sometimes the choir gets tired of my preaching, too.

I confess; I do preach. Twice a week for over eight years, my blog holds forth on equine topics large and small. I write like a clock ticks, to mixed reviews. I do a lot of horse reading…

  A donkey. Her years on flat open prairie, the hard-scrap jumble of danger and chance left only the essentials: ancestral wisdom and longear sensibility and eyes that watch with great vigilance from deep under her brow. She keeps an entrancing distance. Magnetic in her independence. A woman. The caretaker on this small farm with a strong back for throwing hay, filling troughs, mucking and…

It’s the irresistible call to scout hidden ravines and gaze along the elevated vistas from the edge of an eyelash. A wish to explore generations of memories, honor and courage beyond self, cautiously stored in the language of ancient travelers. Ask permission at the gate, take the solitary unmarked path meandering the full distance between his head and his heart. …. Anna Blake at Infinity Farm…

Dawdling through chores, then rushing to a book event, I checked the visor-mirror, and eek! -a long coarse hair sprouting from my chin. Aging requires a tolerance for physical betrayal but it helps to have  friends who wear whiskers like upside-down halos. …. Anna Blake at Infinity Farm Horse Advocate, Author, Speaker, Equine Pro Blog  FB  Email  Author  FB  Tweet  Amazon   … (WordPress Photo…

Decades of hard-scrap survival, a jumble of danger and chance, left only the essentials; ancestral intelligence and long-ear mischief and eyes that shine as deep and whole as the prairie night sky. She hears the stars flicker back an eternity away- Never Quit. Never Quit.   … Anna Blake at Infinity Farm Horse Advocate, Author, Equine Pro Site  FB  Email  Site  FB  Tweet  Amazon … (WordPress Photo…

Photo Challenge: Cherry on Top

Maybe it’s just simple math. The ongoing tally of giving versus withholding; Of offering the benefit of the doubt. And at the end of day, a messy sum remains. Life as we choose it. … Anna Blake at Infinity Farm Horse Advocate, Author, Equine Pro Site  FB  Email  Site  FB  Tweet  Amazon … (WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to share a photo–I enjoy twisting these macro prompts to share…