Thalia rode into the studio holding imaginary reins. She wore Typist’s old riding helmet and nickered at her make-believe mare. “Yesterday’s long, steady rain watered the garden, the grass, and Paintist’s experiments.” “It’s been almost a decade since we trotted around a paddock.” Calliope gazed through the window at a horse farm in the distance.
T-shirt: “When I woke up today I had no plans to be AWESOME — this just happened.” 😁
Par 3 golf. <shudder> A driver, a putter — how hard could it be? After the third ball headed off to nowhere-near-the-pin, I fell back on my mini-golf skills and just putted like crazy for the rest of the course.
I feel privileged to watch paintist’s skills evolving! The minor swarms of “points” hovering around the Muses adds a sense of life to the drawings.
That you carried the dressage experiences on into that paragraph using the verb “spur” put a smile on my face. And your saying that one result was to want to draw a nice Gail card and send same to your former friend/instructor is very “BigJoy.” My first day’s exercise entailed looking for ways to bring warm feelings, happiness, or Joy into the lives of others. Seems a natural instinct for you! Bravo!
Thanks, too, for the link to the video of the woman horse trainer in Patagonia. When I first watched it a while ago on Aeon, I was touched by the overall message of interacting respectfully with those around us. Including horses.
T-shirt: “When I woke up today I had no plans to be AWESOME — this just happened.” 😁
Par 3 golf. <shudder> A driver, a putter — how hard could it be? After the third ball headed off to nowhere-near-the-pin, I fell back on my mini-golf skills and just putted like crazy for the rest of the course.
I feel privileged to watch paintist’s skills evolving! The minor swarms of “points” hovering around the Muses adds a sense of life to the drawings.
That you carried the dressage experiences on into that paragraph using the verb “spur” put a smile on my face. And your saying that one result was to want to draw a nice Gail card and send same to your former friend/instructor is very “BigJoy.” My first day’s exercise entailed looking for ways to bring warm feelings, happiness, or Joy into the lives of others. Seems a natural instinct for you! Bravo!
Thanks, too, for the link to the video of the woman horse trainer in Patagonia. When I first watched it a while ago on Aeon, I was touched by the overall message of interacting respectfully with those around us. Including horses.
Home Run!! Whoops! Fore!
For your walk today:
“Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.” ~Henry David Thoreau
Your “walk” is the other four letter word… “Golf!”
“Golf, is a good walk spoiled.”
~Often misattributed to Mark Twain
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/28/golf-good-walk/amp/
BTW, what kind of horse would “Nia” ride?