Awareness of the outside world. Got a new phone a while back. [Booted Back To The 20th Century]
Have been rebuilding my homepage. Have been slow to get the news sites back into the rotation. April was a month. May was partly recovering from April, partly sticking head in sand. See con point #3. Some days, I hate it. I do NOT want to think about what is going on in the world. But then, see pro points 2 & 3 Silence is complicity. Stay engaged. [State of the Blog, Awareness of the Outside World, Taking a Poll on a New Feature]
Bottom line. I got nothin’. Will try to do better.
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Turn as the horse reaches the corner.
You’d think this would be obvious.
Driving lesson. Verdict. My turns are inconsistent.
Ponder.
I realized that I have been turning as I do when I ride. I would begin steering the cart around the curve when my body reached at the same point in the ring as if I were on the horse.
New Flash. The horse is seven feet in front of that.
Because of this, my ring geometry was wrong. I was making turns based on my position not the horse’s position. When you are riding, those two things are the same. When, driving, not so much.
You’d think this would be obvious.
But that’s 50 years of habit I’m fighting.
By turning when I get to the beginning of the corner, a driving horse is already well into the turn, which makes for janky shapes masquerading as smooth corners.
Next lesson. Thought about turning horse rather than self.
It works!
Unfortunately, I can plan a nice turn or drive the horse. Doing both at the same time is a work in progress.
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 
I love the Awareness section! Please keep it!
Jane.
Doing two things at once is tough.
I just had my first chair Zumba class. I expect it will be easier as I get familiar with the moves, but it is a challenge concentrating on the hands, the feet, the rhythms and the patterns all at once. In your case, you are fighting deeply ingrained “muscle memory”. Challenging.
practice, practice, practice…
Joan
It makes complete sense to start the curve with horse, and not driver in cart. But, like skiing for the first few times, and discovering that one’s feet are extended to the end of the skis, takes time to make this second nature. Good to know if I have a driving lesson. MM
Thank you.
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Skiing. Exactly!