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Riding Awareness of the outside world. The Last Word On Nothing: The Finkbeiner Test: A Tool for Writing About Women in their Professions Aschwanden 2017. TLWON: What I’m Not Going to Do Finkbeiner 2013.~~~ Rodney: Rider on. Cookie now? Me: Yes, I have your cookie. You have to wait until everyone is ready to go.Continue reading “Cookie Conversation”

Images Awareness of the outside world. What you can find when spend way too long down the rabbit hole. A screenshot of my father in Time magazine, March 12, 1965. Related, Yale Alumni Magazine: Throwback Thursday: the campus awakes, Branch, 2015. ~~~ ~~~Process notes. I was this-week years old when I figured out that pullingContinue reading “Blog Logo, Bell Serifs”

Blogging About Blogging Awareness of the outside world. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers.~~~ In an effort to bring balance to my interests, I tried a 100-day challenge. The thinking is that if you do something for 100 days, it will become an ingrained part of your life. I chose daily art. IContinue reading “State of the Blog, Weekly Art”

Fit To Ride Awareness of the outside world. Vox: 4 lessons from the early pandemic that no longer apply. Samuel. Aug 25, 2021. Two take-aways. Abstinence-only is not a long-term answer. We need to think globally, if only out of self interest.~~~ Continued. [Places and Parks, August Walks I] Cahaba Heights ParkCircling sport fields17 August 20211.05Continue reading “Places and Parks, August Walks II”

Fit To Ride Awareness of the outside world. The ultimate political divide. A high tide raises all boats. If you win, I win. VERSUS Life is a zero-sum game. The only way for you to win is for me to lose. It’s hard to see a middle ground between these two. Either you cheer forContinue reading “Places and Parks, August Walks I”

Horsekeeping Awareness of the outside world. Tokyo 2020: Equestrian Paralympic Schedule & Results. Check out the Grade I, walk-only tests, FEI: Para Dressage Tests. Imagination fails me; I have enough trouble with a single diagonal. Paralympics started yesterday (got bumped for Covid news). While I am still dubious about the wisdom of gathering in largeContinue reading “Shoeing Dilemma”

Riding Awareness of the outside world. Yesterday. U.S. Food and Drug Administration: FDA Approves First COVID-19 Vaccine.~~~ Pfffttt. Well, THAT didn’t work. less than five hours after the post on bell boots went up, we came out to the barn to find that Rodney had pulled one of his shoes, without disturbing the bell boot.Continue reading “Milton Takes Point, Virtual Tevis, 55 & 48 Miles, 31 Days”