enlightened horsemanship through touch

Chris Irwin Horse & Rider Clinics coming this fall.
Oct 16-17 @ Riversong Ranch, Whitecourt, Alberta
Oct 23-25 @ Shangri-la Therapeutic Academy of Riding (STAR), Lenoir City, Tennessee
Oct 30-31 @ King City Riding Club, Mt Vernon, Illinois
Nov 5-7 @ Hamilton Farm, Gladstone, New Jersey

"Ask not what your horse can do for you. Ask what you can do for your horse."

You have to at least partially cover your eyes?

I didn’t google anything. It seems it googled me. My stats have taken an odd spike. When I looked into it, I found that a rather, um, interesting group of fetishists from Livejournal.com have found something titillating here.

What on earth could it be?
Read more…

So now you know.

I found a cool new T-shirt for the equestrian touchy-feely set.

via Riders4Helmets

FEI PRESS RELEASE
21 June 2010

Safety helmets strongly recommended by Dressage Committee

Following the accident in which Courtney King-Dye (USA) sustained serious head injuries in a schooling fall in Florida earlier this year, the FEI Dressage Committee has today issued a recommendation regarding the wearing of protective headgear. The FEI Dressage Committee strongly recommends that all riders should wear properly fastened safety helmets when training and in pre-competition warm-ups at all international Dressage shows.

Riders still have the choice of wearing protective headgear in the competition arena.

Media Contact:
Grania Willis
FEI Director Press Relations
Tel: +41 787 506 142
Email: grania.willis@fei.org

Still, what harm could a mandate do?

Happy Summer Solstice Everyone!

The longest day of the year. It used to be bittersweet for me. A celebration of the long, sweet days of summer, but with a twinge of sadness that they would now be shortening.
Lucky for me, shortening days make little difference here in Hawaii. I”m grateful for that.

But the solstice is also about change, and there’s plenty of that around, wherever you live.

courtesy greensandbeans.wordpress.com

May all your changes be good ones.

Hi folks. If you’ve been lucky enough to be busy in a good way you will not have noticed either my recent absence or the vanishing act pulled by June’s Carnival of the Horses. I’m in Maryland assisting my daughter with double hip replacements, and much busier than I thought I’d be. The June Carnival host did not come through.
When I return home, I will post the Carnival and fill you all in on the wonders of mutiple joint replacement in young people. Cheerio!

Been feeling kind of overwhelmed lately. Maybe a little silly will help.

We all know animals talk to each other when we aren’t listening. My all-time favorite example of this is the Gary Larson cartoon of bipedal cows shouting “car!” and plopping down on all fours just as a car crests the hill.

Here are a few more examples. I have no idea where these images came from, or who the smarty pants was who made them. If I find out I will credit them.