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			Horse Kid Scholarship 2009 for Danielle Herb’s ADHD Horse Level 1 Master Class 21st - 28th June 200
				April 22, 2009 by enlightenedhorsemanship  
				
				
				
					I’ve written before about Danielle Herb, the teen who teaches Natural Horsemanship as an aid to other kids suffering with ADD/ADHD, in the hopes of focusing their attention and getting them off their meds. 
I make no claim as to either the efficacy of her methods. I don’t know enough about her NH style to say one way or the other that I support them on behalf of the horses used in her program. What I can say is this: Provided the horses are well-kept, and treated gently and kids are watched carefully as they deal with them, who can have a problem with horses having a noble job helping children? Not me! This kid is a serious role model for us all.
The following is taken from a digital flyer sent to me by a good friend: 
Start Your Summer In Florida With Danielle Herb, the ADHD/ADD Natural Horsemanship Coach
 
WHAT: The ADHD Horse Level 1 Master Class is an exciting new weeklong program developed by Danielle Herb and Drop Your Reins to help you manage your ADD/ADHD using natural techniques and without the need for prescription drugs.
WHO: Children Diagnosed with ADHD/ADD Aged 10-16
WHEN: June 21-28, 2009
WHERE: North Florida (Location to be announced)
The Master Class will allow you to teach other young people the skills you learn, while at the same time teaching you how to manage your own ADD/ADHD by learning the language of the horse and mirroring. 
By taking part in this Master Class you will discover:
• How to manage energy in Positive and Peaceful ways by allowing the horse to mirror you.
• How to improve your grades by developing a natural ability to focus.
• How to easily plan and manage your diet for natural, positive affects.
Winners of The ADHD/ADD Horse Kid Scholarship will receive:
• ADHD Horse Level 1 Coach Certification, allowing you to help other young people (worth $2499)
• Lodging and Meals for the duration of the Master Class
• A exclusive swag bag filled with books, music, DVD’s and services that will help you
• You will gain life skills which will help you to control your ADHD/ADD
For testimonials from real kids and more video, visit ADHDKidScholarship.com.
									
		
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			Wordless Wednesday: Rock and Racehorses by Sarah K. Andrew
				April 22, 2009 by enlightenedhorsemanship  
				
				
				
					Stunning photography and the best website I’ve ever seen.
In the HOME slideshow, there is a doppelganger of me, nuzzling a foal. Really threw me for a loop. 
									
		
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			Wayward Jamaican Boy Grooms His Way to A New Life As a Racehorse Trainer: Horses Save Yet Another Life
				April 21, 2009 by enlightenedhorsemanship  
				
				
				
					Lawrence Fremantle likes the fast lane, and always has.  After he landed in trouble at school and was suspended, the self-proclaimed brilliant boy decided to leave formal education in the dust.  
Somehow, an older friend of his got him interested in the idea of being a racehorse jockey. At age 13, he and his friend left their Jamaica hometown to seek their fortunes in the horse-racing industry at Caymanas Park. Says Fremantle, 
There’s a big gate up here, that’s the gate that we walk through, and when mi walk through, down the straight, mi can’t forget, a jockey went on a horse, the horse went round the track, mi come in and fall in love … Then mi go back down mi yard. All of this was unknown to my parents.
Two weeks after his initial visit, Fremantle secretly decided to return to Caymanas Park to visit Ivan Smith’s stable at Christian Pen, St Catherine. There they ate, drank and slept, and were excited about the prospects of becoming jockeys. However, Fremantle’s mother, who had investigated and found out where he had run off to, had other plans for him.  She went for him and brought him home.
He ran away again.
Mi go home and go school but within a month mi leave again. Something was biting me, something was biting me, so mi come back at Caymanas, find a different stable, was there as an apprentice jockey, and learn fi ride, but a do everything, like pick out the stall, learn fi hold horse, and everything.
Driven to become a jockey though he was, there was no denying the rate at which Fremantle was growing. The dream of becoming a jockey was disappearing as as his legs were lengthening. Fremantle, who is now quite large, soon outgrew his apprentice saddles. Finally realizing that he was not going to be a jockey, he figured he could become a groom, and aligned himself with experienced grooms.
Moving from stable to stable, he learned the basics of grooming horses and, about age 17, he received his registered groom’s license. Now he was able to learn the dynamics of good horsemanship, and eventually became responsible for grooming a particular horse, which started to win races. To his great pleasure, he was being paid to do something he enjoyed, and the need for speed and trouble had vanished. But Fremantle’s desire to move up in the world was growing. 
Not satisfied with just being a groom, Fremantle sought the mentorship of trainer, and seeing that he was a good horseman, the trainer allowed him to learn to train racehorses. He received his assistant trainer’s licence in 1994. 
Paradoxically, his progress was stymied by his fighting spirit. In 1996, he was involved in a brawl with a security officer and, after a trial by a tribunal, he was suspended for 12 months and barred from the tracks for eighteen months. Not to be dissuaded, Fremantle  stuck around the stables at Christian Pen, and eked out a living, and in 1998, he reapplied for his license.
In 2000, he was selected for a course in horse training. Back at school after all those years, studying the practical and theoretical aspects of horse training, he got excellent grades, of which he said “to me it was very good after not going to school for nearly 20 years”.
Even though mi left school at a tender age, what mi always do is keep on buying the newspaper, rap with people who have sense, mi still continue learning. Am not really at school, am at college then, the college of life. I know without certain knowledge you can’t be a successful person.”
And successful became. In 2001, Fremantle became a certified professional horse trainer.
RENEIKA (Leo Miller) powers home in the mud to win the four-year-old and up maiden special over 1100m in post-to-post fashion at Caymanas Park, October 5, 2005. Trained by Lawrence Freemantle, RENEIKA won easily as the 6-5 favorite.
Fremantle went from a boy who came to St Catherine with only two pair of pants in his bag and having to scrounge around stables doing odd tasks to survive, to a top flight trainer who now manages his own stable. He is an employer of grooms, et al, and has over 135 winners coming from his stalls. As such, it’s a good life that he leads, and life has taught him many lessons.
Lawrence Fremantle Receiving a Racing Award
Though wasting some money in the early goings, this 40-year-old horse whisperer is quite content with his achievements and the success they have brought him. Lawrence has acquired all of the things that people work towards, and has trappings that many university graduates cannot afford. He is married to his childhood girlfriend and is the father of six, including a 16-year-old young man, to whom he’s teaching the rudiments and intricacies of horse racing.
Looking back, Fremantle reports no regrets about running away from his hometown and his mother. Apart from the personal gains that horse racing has brought him, he’s now the sole breadwinner for his mother. He’s travelled the world, and has done things that he had always wanted to do, but there is something that he has yet to do, and that is to fulfil his mother’s wish for him.
She say she regret the day (when Lawrence ran away), but she can’t regret it (his involvement in the racing industry). All she asking me to do is to give my life to God … that is the only part which I haven’t given her as yet, but I will give her in due course,
Adapted from The Jamaica Gleaner. April 13, 2009
									
		
				Posted in Horsemanship,  Horses,  People | Tagged Caymanas Racetrack, Lawrence Fremantle, Wayward Jamaican Boy Grooms His Way to A New Life As a Racehorse Trainer: Horses Save Yet Another Life | 2 Comments »
							
					
				
			Syndrome Threatens Horse Owners’ Home Life
				April 20, 2009 by enlightenedhorsemanship  
				
				
				
					After reading a post about this on Barnmice, I have learned the formal name of the affliction that has been creeping around barns and boarding stables this spring. Left undiagnosed or, worse yet, incorrectly treated, it can devastate a facility and the humans associated with it in short order. 
O.C.E.A.N. Syndrome is doesn’t get much press. It is my hope that this post will generate interest from researchers and sports psychologists. 
Upon reading the list of symptoms below, you will likely identify more than a few from which you have suffered. With identification comes the hope of treatment. 
Obsessive Compulsive Equine Attachment Neurosis Syndrome (O.C.E.A.N.) is commonly found in females.  It can manifest anytime from birth to the golden years. Symptoms may  go dormant in the mid to late teens; however, the syndrome frequently re-emerges in later years.
Symptoms vary widely in both number and degree of severity. Allow me to share some examples which are most prominent in our stables.
The afflicted individual
1. Can smell moldy hay at ten paces, but can’t tell whether milk has gone bad until it turns chunky.
2. Finds the occasional “Buck and Fart” session hugely entertaining, but severely chastises her spouse for similar antics.
3. Will spend hours cleaning and conditioning her tack, but wants to eat on paper plates so there are no dishes.
4. Considers equine gaseous emissions to be as fragrant as Chanel No.5. 
5. Enjoys mucking out four stalls twice a day, but insists on having a housekeeper mop the kitchen floor once a week.
6. Will spend an hour combing and trimming an equine mane, but wears a baseball cap so she doesn’t waste time brushing her own hair.
7. Will dig through manure piles daily looking for worms, but does not fish.
8. Will not hesitate to administer a rectal exam up to her shoulder, but finds cleaning out the Thanksgiving turkey cavity for dressing quite repulsive.
9. By memory can mix eight different supplements in the correct proportions, but can’t make macaroni and cheese that isn’t soupy.
10. Twice a week will spend an hour scrubbing algae from the water tanks, but has a problem cleaning lasagna out of the casserole dish.
11. Will pick a horse’s nose, and calls it cleaning, but becomes verbally abusive when anyone else picks his.
12. Can sit through a four-hour session of a ground work clinic, but is unable to make it to half-time of an NFL game.
Families of those suffering from O.C.E.A.N. Syndrome may also exhibit symptoms.
The spouse of an afflicted victim
1. Must come to terms with the fact there is no cure, and minimally effective treatments. The syndrome may be genetic or caused by  inhaling of manure particles early in life. 
2. Must adjust the family budget to include equine items - hay, veterinarian services, farrier services, riding boots, and clothes, supplements, tack, equine masseuse and acupuncturist, etc. It is suggested that, once a monthly figure has been set, the spouse never look at it again. Doing so can cause tightness in the chest, nausea, and occasional diarrhea.
3. Must realize that your spouse has no control over this syndrome. Confronting her is useless: denial is common. 
ANYBODY WANT TO HELP FINISH WRITING THE SYMPTOMS FOR THE HORSEWOMAN AND THE SPOUSE?
									
		
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			Horses In the Airlines’ Main Passenger Cabin?
				April 20, 2009 by enlightenedhorsemanship  
				
				
				
					No, but your companion animals can ride there now.
THE NATION’S  FIRST PET ONLY AIRLINE WILL BEGIN FULL SCHEDULE IN JULY
It’s too little, too late for me, as I’ve been eagerly awaiting this with no news for quite some time. Flying my pets to Hawaii as *gasp* baggage is about as appealing as having my nails pulled out with hot tongs.
But there’s hope for everyone else. Read on…
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (April 16, 2009)
PETAIRWAYS announced that it will launch the first pet-only airline specifically designed for the safe and comfortable transportation of pets, with the first pet flights scheduled for July 14. On Pet Airways, all pets travel in the main cabin, not in the cargo hold.
Serving five cities to start - New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles - Pet Airways plans to expand nationwide with easily accessible pet check-in lounges to serve its “pawsengers” in major metropolitan areas.
A proprietary web-enabled reservation system will allow customers to book pet travel on the web. Owners will be able to track their pet’s travel progress online at .
According to Dan Wiesel, president/CEO of Pet Airways: “Currently, most pets traveling by air are transported in the cargo hold and are handled as baggage. The experience is frightening to the pets, and can cause severe emotional and physical harm, even death. This is not what most pet owners want to subject their pets to, but they have had no other choice, until now.”
Background on Pet Travel 
According to the American Animal Hospital Association, approximately 76 million cats and dogs travel with their owners each year.
Despite the high number of pets traveling, relatively few currently travel by air. This is not surprising, considering the conditions under which most pets must travel. Many airlines allow small pets to travel with their owners, stowed under the seat, but most airlines will only accept one or two pets per flight. Pets that are too big to fit under the seat are relegated to cargo, and unfortunately in many cases, are treated as such.
Recently, several airlines announced they will no longer accept pets on board their aircraft.  In addition, airlines that do accept pets as cargo will not accept them when outside temperatures are below 45 degrees or above 85 degrees, or in other words, during the most popular winter holiday or summer vacation months. Pet parents should=2 0be aware that a cargo hold can quickly reach temperatures over 120 degrees.
“Travel can be a very noisy and scary experience,” says Patty Hegwood, animal care director for Best Friends Animal Society, one of the nation’s best known animal welfare organizations. “It is incredible that there are folks like Pet Airways who are committed to safe air travel for animals. This will be a real benefit to pet owners and shelter/rescue organizations that transport animals on a regular basis.”
Pet owners who want to transport their pets across the country are faced with limited or dangerous transportation choices. A study by the San Francisco SPCA, found that of the two million animals transported in the cargo holds of commercial airliners per year, approximately 5,000 are injured in transit. According to the Animal, Plant and Health Inspection Service (APHIS), “virtually every major airline has been cited and fined for repeatedly mishandling animals”. As a result of a lack of oxygen and temperature control in the cargo holds, the most common causes of death are suffocation and heat prostration, although one airline was cited for placing a dog too close to a motor, which burned the animal.
Put simply, passenger airlines are not a safe mode of transportation for our pets.
The Pet Airways Experience 
The greatest issue facing pet parents when they want to transport their pets, aside from the dilemma and trauma of=2 0putting their loved ones in cargo holds, is the inability to know who, if anyone, is taking care of their pet and where or how their pet is being treated. It is a very stressful experience.
Pet Airways has solved this problem completely.
Pet Airways ensures pets are in the good hands of people who love and know how to take care of pets. From the moment a pet is dropped off at a Pet Lounge, the pet is always under the care of trained Pet Attendants. Monitored by Pet Attendants, pets will fly in planes that are fully-lit, climate-controlled and have the proper level of fresh air circulation that pets require.
Pawsengers will be boarded and de-boarded from planes as quickly as possible, never left in the cold or heat, and depending on transit time, will be offered toilet facilities, food and water as necessary during stops. Pet Parents will be assured of sensitive, careful handling and the peace of mind that their pets are well looked after by people who care as much about their pets as they do. The Pet Airways goal is to make the pet travel experience more comfortable and enjoyable for both pawsengers and their human families.
About Pet Airways
Founded in 2005 by Dan Wiesel and Alysa Binder, Pet Airways was created to provide a safe and comfortable solution for the transportation of pets. Inspiration for the concept came from difficulties encountered when shipping Zoe, their Jack Russell Terrier, across the country.

The Pet Airways Promise
We promise to transport your pet with lots of love, care, safety, and comfort in the main cabin.
Pet Airways is the first airline exclusively dedicated to pets - no humans please - and we take the job of providing a comfortable experience for pets very seriously.
We’ll do everything in our power to make sure your pets get the best care during their journey because we’re committed to taking care of our pet “pawsengers” as if they were our own.
 
Now if only they would make an airline for horses with grass and hay nets and apples. And a horse-crazy, fawning teenage groom for each horse. All our animal travel needs would be taken care of!
 
Media Contact:
Alysa Binder
561-274-6648
abinder@petairways.com
									
		
				Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged animal travel, Horses In the Airlines' Main Passenger Cabin?, Pet Airways, pet travel | 6 Comments »
							
					
				
			A Picture is Worth a Thousand Non-Words
				April 20, 2009 by enlightenedhorsemanship  
				
				
				
					
Marcie Scudder’s site, Daily Practice - an exercise in mindfulness caught my eye last week. 
Lots of people get automatic delivery of beautiful photos to marvel at. My sister’s favorite is the National Geographic Photo of the Day. But Scudder has something more in mind. 
 I picked up my camera and began what quickly became a daily exercise in recording the world as I view it through my camera lens. The practice, as I have come to know it, is about finding the new in the everyday ordinary. It is about presence and awareness..and recording what ’is’. It is not necessarily about perfection. It is a reminder that there is hidden magic in the details, if we actually stop and take the time to look and see what it is we’re looking at.
There are some Buddhist meditation practices that focus on an object, a photo, a thought, for periods of time. There are some schools that object to the focusing of attention on any object or concept outside “no-mind.” Everyday mindfulness easily encompasses taking the time to examine “the hidden magic in the details.”  Try walking along with Marcie Scudder for a few days, and really see what she sees.  Try observing carefully without allowing your mind to take on the discursive thoughts and judgements that ordinarily would occur when looking at photos. “I like those colors.” “Oooh, how pretty!” Just look. 
You might bring new eyes back to your “real world.”
My hope is to take you along with me as I walk and explore…and to share some of the peace and wonder I find along my way.
All of Scudder’s photographs are available for purchase. 
									
		
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			In Virginia, An Idea for National Turn Off Your TV Week (April 20-26)
				April 20, 2009 by enlightenedhorsemanship  
				
				
				
					Monday April 20,  6:30-7:30pm Animal Wellness Book Club  (every 3rd Monday of the month)
Facilitated by Sandy Rakowitz
Free
Barnes & Noble Bookstore,
Barracks Road Shopping Center
1035 Emmet St Suite A,
Charlottesville, VA 22903
(434) 984-0461
Join us whether or not you have read the books (and bring a friend)! Bring your interest and questions about animal wellness and health.
Our first books:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Getting in TTouch with Your Dog: An Easy, Gentle Way to Better Health and Behavior by Linda Tellington-Jones

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Holistic Health Guide: Natural Care for the Whole Dog by Doug Knueven, DVM
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Whole Health for Happy Dogs by Jill Elliot and Kim Bloome, DVM
For more information, contact Sandy Rakowitz at 434-973-8864 or email: sandy@onehearthealingcenter.com
									
		
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			Practical Pachyderms Carry Hannibal Over the Blue Ridge
				April 20, 2009 by enlightenedhorsemanship  
				
				
				
					For those who have been following the seriously off-topic and really fun comments on The White Horses of England,  I have an update. 
I tried to play my own silly April Fool’s Day joke on you all but it didn’t work. Today, one worked on me, and that’s for sure!
What do these two things have to do with one another? Let me explain. I was driving home over Afton Mountain after a luncheon when I happened to notice what looked like a line of elephants marching over a ridge of the mountain I was preparing to cross. After rubbing my eyes (careful of the steering wheel!), wondering if my lavender lemonade had been spiked with LSD, and then pulling over to search for my missing camera, I discovered that I really was looking at elephants way up there!
It appears that Colorado has nothing on Virginia when it comes to strange large animal sculptures in odd places. It tool a little research, but I finally found out the story behind what turned out to be practical joking pachyderms.

This is the regular view. No wonder I was looking up, right?
 You can see the elephants lined up behind Hannibal on this ridge
But this is what I saw on the ridge. 
Turns out to be another loopy project by a practical joker. Read these articles: The News Virginian and NBC 29
									
		
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			National Television TURN OFF Week, April 20-26
				April 19, 2009 by enlightenedhorsemanship  
				
				
				
					There’s A Great Space
In which this moment takes place.
There’s A Great Silence
that is listening to the thoughts.
–Adyashanti
Television is the ultimate path to mindlessness. Even if it isn’t shaping your thoughts, it creates a void in your mind. You fail to stay in the present moment because you’re in somebody else’s. 
Why not turn it off for a week and experiment with staying present? You can start tomorrow. This will provide extra time and mental space to give to your horses. 

Television Facts:
Number of 30-second commercials seen in a year by an average child: 20,000
Number of minutes per week that parents spend in meaningful conversation with their children: 38.5
Number of minutes per week that the average child watches television: 1,680
Percentage of children ages 6-17 who have TV’s in their bedrooms: 50
Percentage of day care centers that use TV during a typical day: 70
Hours per year the average American youth spends in school: 900 hours
Hours per year the average American youth watches television: 1500
Percentage of Americans that regularly watch television while eating dinner: 66
It pays to know. 
For more information on when, how and why, visit Screentime.org.
And from Turn Off Your TV.com, this list, to which I have added a final idea:
SOME ALTERNATIVE ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Volunteer in a school to teach reading, math, computer skills.
Learn to play the guitar or other musical instrument.
Attend community concerts.
Organize a community clean-up.
Put together a puzzle.
Visit the library. Borrow a book. Attend library activities.
Go ice skating or roller skating.
Listen to the radio.
Visit the zoo.
Paint a picture, a mural or a room.
Attend a high school sporting event.
Find out about your area’s community center or park’s activities.
Go swimming. Join a community swim team.
Read a book aloud to your younger sister/brother.
Plan a picnic or barbecue.
Go bird watching.
Volunteer for a community organization or charity.
Play with your pet.
Go dancing.
Write a letter to a friend or relative.
Learn to cook.
Plant a flower, vegetable or herb garden.
Read magazines or newspapers.
Plan a slumber party.
Start a neighborhood basketball, soccer, or kickball game.
Go camping (even if it’s just in the backyard!).
Join a choir.
Go through your closets and clothes. Donate surplus items to Goodwill, the Salvation Army or a local rummage sale.
Start a diary/journal.
Go to a museum.
Take a nature hike. Collect seeds and leaves. Make a collage with the materials you collected and post it on the refrigerator.
Play cards.
Start a community exercise group that power walks, runs, or bikes.
Read a story to your younger brother or sister.
Get out the family photo album. Research your family history.
Go listen to a local band.
Make crafts to give as gifts.
Make up a story and write it down.
Learn to say simple phrases in a few different languages.
Ask an older family member to tell you a story about his or her childhood. Write about it.
Learn some new riddles or jokes.
Bake two batches of cookies; one for your family and one for a neighbor.
Watch the night sky through binoculars; identify the different constellations. Observe the moon.
Visit a local bookstore.
Go to a movie with your family or friends.
Walk to work or school.
Start a kids bowling league.
Train for a 5K race.
Teach a neighbor about a computer program.
Go fishing.
Begin a family project.
HAVE A PARTY TO CELEBRATE A TV-FREE WEEKSpend time with your horse
									
		
				Posted in Events,  Mindfulness | Tagged National Television Turn Off Week | 9 Comments »
							
					
				
			It’s Award Time!
				April 19, 2009 by enlightenedhorsemanship  
				
				
				
					I have always loved giving presents. My family accuses me of being congenitally generous, which on occasion gets me into trouble. I don’t think handing out virtual gifts can do that, so I’m feeling a little expansive today, it being Easter and all. Being a Buddhist, I don’t celebrate the Christian holidays. I also give presents on my birthday, like a Hobbit. It’s a little late, and I’m not the right religion, but I feel the need to mark these beautiful days with a little gift-giving (compulsive? yes!!!).
If you are reading this, I feel really lucky. Please pick up the jpeg of your award, post it in your blog somewhere, and link back to EHTT.
I will also email you about your giftie if I think you probably won’t read this, for whatever reason.
And now, the awards:
 I am bestowing this award on a non-blogger. Odd, I know. As I think back over the past year, there is one person who comments here who makes me think so hard my head hurts. His comments have consistently led to new lines of inquiry and more than a few “Aha”s. Equestrian as well as personal breakthroughs. Shoshin, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
for Lori Skoog
 
Lori Skoog of The Skoog Farm Journal reveals the beauty and grace of everyday life. When a person is able to shine alight on the minutiae of daily living and reveal it to be beautiful, they are true artists. Thank you Lori, for posting beauty every day.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Informative Blogger
 
Liz Goldsmith of Equine Ink writes the most interesting and informative posts. Reading her blog is like going to an equine and equestrian museum, for fascinating historical and current facts and stories.

 
 
 
 
 
 
For the Literary Horse
 
Jane of The Literary Horse inspires me with her writing. Logging on to her blog is an exercise in anticipation … of her brilliant writing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Patience Award
It’s not my place to hand out any kind of horsemanship award, especially to one so accomplished as Tamara of The Barb Wire. But to anyone following recent developments at In the Night Farm, it’s pretty obvious that Tamara is doling ife lessons for all of us as she cares for Aaruba and brings Consolation along. So an award for patience is really an award of thanks for teaching about how to deal gracefully with dramatically altered expectations.
									
		
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			National Poetry Month: Post Your Horse Poems Here
				April 18, 2009 by enlightenedhorsemanship  
				
				
				
					

Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride,
Friendship without envy,
Or beauty without vanity?
Here, where grace is served with muscle
And strength by gentleness confined
He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity.
There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent.
There is nothing so quick, nothing more patient.

~Ronald Duncan, “The Horse,” 1954
Poems, please!
									
		
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			This Kid Is Living My Dream
				April 17, 2009 by enlightenedhorsemanship  
				
				
				
					No one ever told her NO, or if they did, she didn’t listen. 
Straight from Equine Ink. Follow the journey on the Expedition Equus Website or on twitter. This kid needs all the support she can get. 
Becky Sampson
Part of Becky’s mission is to support SOS Children, as she explains in this post: 
Becky has a WISHLIST of items she needs to complete her expedition. Take a look. If you can offer her something, please send it! 
Thanks Equine Ink!
									
		
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			The White Horses of England: Looming Large
				April 16, 2009 by enlightenedhorsemanship  
				
				
				
					Visit The Telegraph for a video. The Telegraph does not make embedding easy. 
What are they thinking?
The As-Yet-Unbuilt Giant White Horse Has Finally Bee Named!
What? Aren’t there enough giant white horses in England? Do they really need another one? Can’t they just wander around scraping up the chalky sod and find another? Do they have to construct one? Apparently the answer is yes. The proposed horse evokes ideas of national identity that artist Mark Wallinger said were behind the sculpture. 
Wallinger’s submission, which draws on Anglo-Saxon legend, Stubbs’ paintings of thoroughbreds and the ancient White Horse of Uffington, won a competition to construct a landmark work of art to be placed by the A2 near Ebbsfleet.
A 164ft-high sculpture of a white horse will be called Kingdom, according to Alan Hill, the winner of a tongue-in-check Daily Telegraph competition. Hill’s approval of Wallinger’s giant horse is not shared by all. Due to be completed by 2012, the enormous white Kingdom will undoubtedly dominate the skyline in part of north Kent. Several people suggested it should be called the Big White Elephant; others proposed Eyesore and Nightmare. Jake Dowding from Girton, Cambs., thought the “only name for a 160ft steel horse” was Rusty.
One man even suggested structural improvements to enable the horse to collect and then pass water for “dramatic effect.” “When full, the tank should discharge its contents in a stream from the obvious place.”
									
		
				Posted in Horses,  Uncategorized | Tagged Ebbsfleet England, Kingdom, Mark Wallinger, White Horse of Uffington | 10 Comments »
							
					
				
			National Poetry Month: Author Unknown–Is It You?
				April 16, 2009 by enlightenedhorsemanship  
				
				
				
					
Look back at our struggle for freedom,
Trace our present day’s strength to it’s source;
And you’ll find that man’s pathway to glory
Is strewn with the bones of the horse.
~Author Unknown
									
		
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			BlogHer
				April 15, 2009 by enlightenedhorsemanship  
				
				
				
					Check out my newest column on BlogHer: Radical Acceptance: When Things Don’t Turn Out The Way We Think They Should!

									
		
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			Wordless Wednesday: The Art of Lori Skoog
				April 15, 2009 by enlightenedhorsemanship  
				
				
				
					Lori Skoog of Skoog Farm Journal is an artist and teacher! Below you will see some of her work and that of her students, current and past. 
More watercolors by Lori Skoog 

Pastel by Sandy Clark: Smithfields Joe (A Horse at Skoog Farm)	
Pencil by Tina Eibl (Current Student)
Watercolor by Lori Skoog: Glen Stirling
Watercolor by Brenda Cretney
Watercolor by Lori Skoog: BlackNose
Watercolor by Brenda Cretney: DJ
Watercolor by Sandy Clark
Pastel by Sandy Clark: Berlin (Lori Skoog's Horse)
									
		
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			Barn Mice
				April 15, 2009 by enlightenedhorsemanship  
				
				
				
					Look for me on Barnmice.com, a video, photo and blogging community for horsepeople everywhere.
									
		
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			Announcing An Instructional Conference Call: TTouch Tips for People and Animals
				April 14, 2009 by enlightenedhorsemanship  
				
				
				
					with Sandy Rakowitz, Tellington TTouch® Practitioner, Wednesday, April 15 at 7:00 p.m.

Conference Dial in Number:  (605) 475- 4850
Please email Sandy Rakowitz at sandy@onehearthealingcenter.com to register. 
This is an informal forum for questions, clarifications and exploration of TTouch, covering the following topics:
Brief intro of TTouch
First Aid tips for TTouch  (physical and emotional - things for you and your animals….)
Ear Strokes - why use them and how,
Python lifts on the chest for asthma and breathing (since it is allergy season)Heart Hugs for calming and balancing
Q & A
Upcoming events  
Join us!
									
		
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			The Ideal Horse Trainer Trains Bloggers, Too
				April 14, 2009 by enlightenedhorsemanship  
				
				
				
					Some of us write about training and dogma and attitudes toward horses. Some of us could actually carry out our dreams, and some of us could not. I fall strictly within the latter category. I don’t have the skill or the experience. What I do have is the discriminatory power to know when I’m seeing the real thing, and when I’m seeing something disturbing. And then to dismantle it ad nauseum. Yes. It’s all in the eye of the beholder. 
This beholder’s eye has been taught many a time by Bonnitta Roy of Alderlore: To Know the Horse Is To Know Yourself. Routine checks of Bonnitta’s blog turn up fascinating and often moving posts and video. It’s rare indeed to discover truly honest trainers who practice with skill and dedication what some of us can only preach. 
I would like to call attention to a series of posts in  that illustrate the depth of willingness to truly see into a horse that makes Bonnitta such a treasure. 
The Dancer
A Freisian’s Journey on the Path
A Freisian’s Journey on the Path, Part II
A Freisian’s Journey on the Path, Part III
A Freisian’s Journey on the Path, Part IV
A Freisian’s Journey on the Path, Part V
									
		
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			Great YouTube Channel
				April 14, 2009 by enlightenedhorsemanship  
				
				
				
					Simrat, of Akal Ranch has a YouTube Channel, loaded with great video. 
Go watch.
									
		
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