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Riding Journal Awareness of the outside world. Work today. Must focus. Oh look, laundry …~~~ Unrelated photo for visual interest. Pasture last Saturday. Here’s a theory. Predicting the worst is the mind’s way of making a making a side bet with itself. You want X to happen. You decide not-X is going to happen. IfContinue reading “Client Management”

Fit To Ride Awareness of the outside world. What is an inclusive way to address a handful of people? I was writing an email to three women, two of whom I have met but don’t know well. I began with “Ladies:” But then I thought, Really? Do I know that? They have feminine names. TheyContinue reading “Ride Like An Athlete”

Images Awareness of the outside world. While we are on the subject of images. At my appointment last week, the dentist took an impression for an onlay. Think of it as a shallow crown. Instead of asking me to bite into a hunk of softened chewing gum, they scanned my tooth and the environs. TheContinue reading “Moon Rats Logo, A Design Study”

Laura: Well, I said I’d tell you about the lunar arts scene, which mostly means Moon Rats. They’re the ones with the leisure time. The rest of us are either working all out to maximize our limited time here, or exercising to keep our system in shape to go home. When they say We LiveContinue reading “Email from the Moon, The Art Scene, Fiction”

Riding Journal Pix from the Prof! Photo guru Meg McKinney brought her critters class to the show as a photo field trip. She was kind enough to send photos. Welcome Meg! [Show Report, Guest Photos I, Guest Photos II] Rodney offered to narrate this set of photos. (I added the specifics.) That’s my dressage test.Continue reading “Doctor Whooves and The Master, FCHP Schooling Show, April 2021, Guest Photos III”

Riding Journal Yay for more photos! Photo guru Meg McKinney brought her critters class to the show as a photo field trip. Photo student Ginni Bush was kind enough to send photos. Welcome Ginni! [Show Report, Guest Photos I] Dressage Before. Handwalking as a warm-up technique. Whatever works. After. Who wins the smug trophy, horseContinue reading “The Return of Doctor Whooves, FCHP Schooling Show, April 2021, Guest Photos II”

Riding Journal Awareness of the outside world. Dentist yesterday. Drafted this on Monday. If there is nothing relevant here, it’s because I had trouble seeing past another round of the dratted epinephrine. [Ring, Conversations]~~~ Flowers at the farm. So what happened to saddle seat? At first, all the public health information said stay home ifContinue reading “Whatever Happened To Saddlebred Wednesdays?”