Awareness of the outside world. From a potato chip of a science fiction novel that includes typing cats. “A bunch of dudes born into money who used that money to take advantage of other people to make even more money. It works great until they start believing that being rich makes them smart, and then they get in trouble. Unless they find someone else to take advantage of.” Starter Villain by John Scalzi (Tor 2023). It’s just a story.
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Rodney and I walked about the ring for a few minutes. Under saddle.
It was warm & sunny. Rodney has been chill on the lungeline. Someone – not me – proposed this idea on Saturday. My initial response was, No way. I reconsidered overnight. We have horses. We should do something with horses. Okay, I’ll try. I reserved the right to bail at the first sign of adversity.
Rodney lunged. I got on. Plan was to stand for a while. Rodney kept moving off. Not because he was jittery, but because he was trying to go over to accost the snack dispenser. Okay, I guess we can walk about. A few circles. Walked over the crossrail a few times. Declared victory and dismounted.
Rider, amazed: That wasn’t horrible!
Horse, amazed: That wasn’t horrible!
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 
Onwards! Wonderful!
Jane
May your current level of amazement continue to escalate.
Bravo!!
“…not horrible.” Laughed at this one. MM
Second comment — found the intro with typing cats, eerily prescient. MM
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