Finding Growth in Life’s Rainstorms

Embracing Challenges and Moving Forward It’s raining again – literally. This spring and early summer the horses’ pens were like swamps. They had finally dried up. Now they are messy again. It feels like it’s been raining non-stop since the first of November. This...

Rediscovering Authenticity

How Horses Help Us Embrace Our True Selves Do you always feel like you’re being authentic? I mean true to yourself, never wavering. I hear a lot about this. We tend to put on different personas for the outside world. Because we feel like people won’t like us if we’re...

Lessons in Boundaries and Completions

How Horses Can Help Us Set Limits and Let Go I think I wrote about my word for the year being completions. Last week I got another thing completed. The house in Oakley is sold. It hasn’t been a great process. It’s been under contract three times, and it sold for less...

When Life Feels Like a Whirlwind

Living in Western Kansas I’ve seen a lot of wind. This passage has inspired me to find a way to embrace the wind.   “A Tibetan allegory, it represents the strength of the human soul, with two components: the first being the wind, or chi, the equivalent of...

Embracing the Unexpected

A Journey Through Corn Mazes, Repairs, and Letting Go of Control Some days don’t go as planned. Mom and I went back to Oakley for the weekend after Mikey’s birthday to celebrate with her and her family. There’s a corn maze south of Oakley this year and Charlie thought...