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Back to top jackspark Member Joined: 10 Jan 2010 Posts: 4477 Location: Missouri Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 9:11 pm    Post subject: About all we eat here is deer and turkey, right off the farm.  It's inexpensive, clean of all hormones and the population is thick enough to need thinning..... it works out well for us. _________________ Nancy       Flying Monkey Trainer A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.  Lao Tzu                                                       Back to top ErinR76 Member Joined: 12 Aug 2011 Posts: 506 Location: Austin TX Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:37 pm    Post subject: lucky dog. _________________ A horse is NOT a large dog that thinks like a person. Back to top bit Member Joined: 02 Feb 2009 Posts: 4355 Location: Kansas Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 4:54 pm    Post subject: Just my take on things, which means this is the reality I've created.  It might not be yours.   I was thinking about how we are sparks of the divine creator.  The creator being within us,, experiencing life through us.  As us.  Look in the mirror and lookinng back is the divine.  I know God loves me, but considering my love of horses. and that happened as one of my earliest memories, God must be rather fond of them too.  To me, they feel a lot like angels.  Great teachers, companions, healers, and friends.  True friends.   I think most of us have had those "moments" with our horses.  Those moments in clairty, or times when we remained in the saddle when all logic said we should have been sent flying.  Those cenataur moments.  Times when our horses have pressed their faces against ours, breathed us in as if we were the most lovely scent they have ever known.  I'm thinking they were God moments.  Moments in time when the divine showed through and connected with His angels, our horses.  Times when He happilly sat a bolting horse, and we, the human actuallly looked back and remembered much to our horror, there was enjoyment, pleasure, and joy in that moment of fear.  Moments when there was pain, for us or our horses, and God shown through us and there was healing.  Comfort.  Whether the horse cried in our hair, or we cried in thier manes, God was there.   I'm starting to realize that when I'm with a horse, there are three of us.  I'm never as close to all that is, as when I am when I am with a horse. _________________ "It was once said I should clear my head for one cannot ride a Thoroughbred.  Hot they are.  And too fast they be.  Forever on the fly.  But I stayed the course and have no remorse.  I love my off the track racehorse!" Back to top ErinR76 Member Joined: 12 Aug 2011 Posts: 506 Location: Austin TX Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 5:04 pm    Post subject: When I had my husband's wedding band made, I had three diamonds put in it...one for him, one for me, and right in between, one for the source of all that is! Looking back, I should have just put one, though! LOL _________________ A horse is NOT a large dog that thinks like a person. Back to top jackspark Member Joined: 10 Jan 2010 Posts: 4477 Location: Missouri Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 2:08 am    Post subject: Went out to the back of the 25 acres to find my friends tonight.  How sweet is it to find them and have them turn and look, stop what they are doing and come to greet you.  The look on my Gem's face said it all "It is soooo good to see you, I've really missed you"  Makes me happy to know that I am one of them _________________ Nancy       Flying Monkey Trainer A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.  Lao Tzu                                                       Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First         It's About The Horse Forum Index -> The Spirit of the Horse All times are GMT Page Previous  1, 2, 3 Page 3 of 3   Jump to: Select a forum Rules and How To - PLEASE READ FIRST----------------Bulletin Board RulesBulletin Board SuggestionsHelp Wanted It's About the Horse Chat----------------Horse General ChatHello and Welcome Newcomers!Beyond Parelli - Continuing EducationMedical and Nutrition DiscussionsFarrier and HoofcareBiomechanics and Purity of GaitThe Spirit of the Horse Horses who Need YOUR HelpEventsCome Ride with UsHelpful LinksLive chatHoofbeats in Heaven Levels Chat----------------Level 1 FriendshipLevel 2 PartnershipLevel 3 RefinementLevels 4, 5, and 6 It's About A Horse Learning Library----------------Audition SubmissionsGround Play On LineGround Play at libertyPlaying under saddleGeneral Horsemanship Nonsense and Other FUN things----------------General ChatYouth Forum - A place for young people to gatherIt's not about the MONEYThe Members Only ForumAdult HumorMember LocatorThe BLOG site FOR SALE----------------Horses for sale or leaseTrailers and TackGoods and ServicesThe Trade, Barter, Lend ForumBooks, DVDs, CDs, VHS, buy, sell, trade or looking  You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum Card File  Gallery  Forum Archive Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group