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“Hello darkness, my old friend

I’ve come to talk with you again

Because a vision softly creeping

Left its seeds while I was sleeping

And the vision that was planted in my brain

Still remains

Within the sound of silence”

The Sound of Silence

Song by Simon & Garfunkel (1964)

Garfunkel once st...

One obstacle that exists for parents is finding a way to divide time between the barn, your children, your life partner, and your job(s). In this situation scheduling is vital, if as a parent you can make sure dinner is made, the kids are picked up and dropped off to their numerous activities, homew...

My husband was sent away for work recently, nothing much, just a month and a half. Not to worry, we’ve faced longer. Usually my son and I will use this time to travel a bit, or find local adventures. Sadly, getting mother/son time has become a bit more difficult to get due to his sister being so you...

Mindful Moment

Mindfulness is a muscle that needs to be used daily if it’s to be truly effective.

I was sitting on the couch the other day, watching the Disney animated movie, Moana. Like many parents who’ve watched a movie thousands of times at the behest of their toddlers, I wasn’t paying attent...

“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” 

E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

Grief. Loss. Mourning. 

These are all words used to describe the death of a loved one. Yet grief is hardly exclusive to people.

Horses grieve in similar ways as us humans...

Sometimes a horse will forget they are, well, horses.

I remember cleaning stalls as a kid and there was one or two of these majestic four legged toddlers that LOVED to pin me in a corner. I would have to make a full stop on cleaning and figure out a way to get this loveable animal away from me.

I ...

Thoughtful Tuesday: May 24th, 22

Do you ever get the feeling that you absolutely do NOT want to do adult things? Don’t want to attend meetings, or have adult conversations, or finish those assignments, review that important paperwork. It’s just not in the cards to be self motivated, you just don’t ...

I sit and try to be “mindful.”  I’m irritated and my knee itches.  I am a meditation failure.  How can I be a failure at “just being?” 

As I sit and try to meditate my mind races and I think of all the things I should be doing or, I think of ridiculous things.  Did you know that some sea snakes bre...

It’s April in Michigan.  What does that mean?  It means that we experience anything from snow, rain, and temperatures that can be in the sunny sixties one moment and drop to the terrible twenties in a moment. 

Mother nature is very active in April.  She swings like a pendulum from one season to the...

I’d like to say that I have joined the other horses in their sunny field of dreams, but that would not be true.

I am about 1/2 way down that hill and that feels pretty good!

Come into the barn with me and I will show you a bunch of horses just like me.

The bay that weaves in his stall anytime som...

There are three red horses. They look like carbon copies. Two are together eating lush green grass in the middle of the field and the other is alone near an electric fence line.

The lone horse, that has somehow become me, picks the burnt and sparse grass while her tail keeps hitting the electric fe...