Category Archives: Thoughts

Awareness of the outside world. “Technological fallacy: the idea that technology changes society. It is exactly the reverse. Society develops technology to address the changes that are taking place within it.” Paper: Paging Through History, by Mark Kurlansky (Norton 2016), prologue. ~~~ tl, dr: Showed over the weekend. Almost didn’t. [Soloing In A Crowd] GivenContinue reading “Before The Show, In Which I Dither And Decide To Go To A Horse Show”

Photo credit: Kimberley Mullins ASHAA Summer Fun ShowHeathermoor FarmLeeds AL, USASaturday 14 September 2024 Optimus. Thank you to the Bearden & Gray families.30 Academy Showmanship Adult WTC – 1st of 7 131 Academy Equitation Adult WTC – 1st of 7 1 Seven of us stood in the lineup and I was called out first! Woot!Continue reading “Soloing In A Crowd, Show Report, ASHAA Summer Fun Show #4”

Awareness of the outside world. Doing my part for science, Johns Hopkins COVID Long Study. Filled out my quarterly survey. [Summer Is Here] ~~~ Rodney has been promoting putting Milton on Regu-Mate, a mood stabilizer for mares that can be used for geldings. Rodney would like his roommate to chill. Regu-Mate is complicated to workContinue reading “Milton’s Magic Mixture”

Art of the outside world. MOMA: Lettering by Hand, Exhibition from the 60s. Exhibition calalogue online under “View the publication.” ~~~ [Fractal Alphabet] Onwards!Katherine

It all started when two of Abby’s friends used to meet every weekday for coffee. She wanted to join them, but they lived in town and she lived way out in the country. Their coffee shop of choice was too far away. It would mean driving for two hours – an hour there and anContinue reading “Digital Coffee Hour, Fiction Fragment”

Photography of the outside world. In the spirit of this week’s debate, CBS News: White House Photographers, 2010. From Kennedy to Obama. Current is Adam Schultz. ~~~ LeafPelham AlabamaAugust 2024 Technical Details Leaf, f/5.6, 1/100 sec., 40.0 mm, ISO 640. Manual mode & auto-focus. Post production: resized, border, & watermark. No cropping. High ISO becauseContinue reading “Leaf, Photography”

Awareness of the outside world. Savor: Iceland Adventures, scroll down for pics & a short paragraph on “my day on an Icelandic horse”. [Riding in Reykjavik, a Guest Post] ~~~ ScoutAAA Performance HorsesInstructor, Aubrey Schreiber If memory serves, my first time in a western saddle since Wyoming summer camp in 1976. Things I noticed. I keptContinue reading “First Western Lesson”