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path_of_one said:
TE- I was always curious if you were a rider.
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Not much, well not horses anyway... I always feel like its imposing such an indignity on such a noble creature to jump on its back like some cheeky monkey.
There is actually a book called the Tao of Equus as well.
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How cool is that! Need to go now and look it up. :)

tao

Edit: Had a look and not the equestrian manual i sort of expected. Will need to order it. Thank you :)
 
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Tao_Equus said:
I always feel like its imposing such an indignity on such a noble creature to jump on its back like some cheeky monkey.
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Now one could feel like the cheeky monkey in one of those nose to butt horse rides. Or rolling around in circles in a small fenced field.

But take a string of horses out for a week through the mountains or the desert camping and hunting and it becomes a different story. Get into a ride where you let the horse have its head and it bolts down through trails as you move in tandem with every stride and its an exhilerating adventure. Or go bar hoppin and let'em take you back to the barn while you fall asleep riding backwards, now that is right back to the cheeky monkey...
 
Tao_Equus said:
Not much, well not horses anyway... I always feel like its imposing such an indignity on such a noble creature to jump on its back like some cheeky monkey.
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I think of my horses as my dancing partners. :) Mine actually like to have me ride, judging by their eager attitude when I get to the stable. But then, it's a conversation between us. I listen for what they want to do and we do some of that, and they listen for what I want to do and we do some of that too. I treat them as friends. There is some kind of powerful unity when we are moving as one creature, and the hoofbeats resonate with my breathing and heartbeats... Something very special about horses.

Had a look and not the equestrian manual i sort of expected. Will need to order it. Thank you :)
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Yes, it's an interesting read. Horses are incredibly sensitive and intuitive creatures, and reflect one's mental and emotional state back to oneself. Working with horses is great therapy. Incidentally, while I've never contacted the Horse Ancestors (you have to read the book :)), I have communicated with my horses the way she describes, and you can receive images and senses from them. Interpretation can be kind of tricky- like speaking a foreign language.
 
Wil and Path,

I fully appreciate what you convey and have spent a lot of time around horses. My grandparents used to breed horses and dogs, my ex wife has horses and where I grew up horses were a part of my daily life. As a child I even had a sunday job at a dressage and show jumping arena. But for me this is a personal thing. All the time I was learning to ride I never felt comfortable climbing on a horses back. I felt like a burden, not a dance partner. I agree profoundly that horses have, in my opinion, a unique way about them. A depth and stillness that is both noble and disconcertingly able to touch deep into me. I feel horses to be one of the most intelligent creatures I have come across. I love to be around them, just not to burden them with my graceless and cumbersome weight. Having spent time around them I do see that they enjoy being ridden too, just not by me :p And no, I have never had a bad experience with or on a horse to account for my feelings and have known a couple of individuals as good friends. Its just me...one of my foibles.

Tao
 
:) Well, Tao- with human friends we all have different stuff we do together too. I enjoy just being around my horses too. I love to ride, but my favorite thing is just to groom my horses, and pet them, and feel their breath on me and lay my head on their neck. My second favorite is probably just hanging out in the pasture or paddock with them. Kind of "being a horse" with them. They are excellent companions. My gelding particularly loves going for walks or jogs, like a dog- on his lead. Actually, provided there is nothing intensely exciting going on, he doesn't even need a lead. He just likes to walk around with me. I've had him the longest (8 years) and we play games together as horses do together, too (though he knows to be gentle, since I'm a weakling LOL). I'll run and he'll run beside me, like we're a little herd of two. And then I'll start being all crazy and jumping around and turning quickly and he gets all crazy and spins and bucks and does little rears. LOL And then we'll take a break and I'll scratch his back like horses do for each other. He has a lot of tricks he's come up with on his own to surprise people, too. It's very funny to see what he comes up with, and he seems to retain the antics that make people laugh and do them over and over. Whenever I am depressed or upset with life, I can cry on his lovely shoulder and he'll pull out some silly antic to make me laugh. He'll do it over and over until I am laughing and feel much better.

I always figure that one day, my body may not let me ride. But I'd still have horses... I can't give up that connection. It's one of the biggest things that gives me joy.

They're incredibly intelligent creatures in a way that is totally different from human intelligence, and they have a power and grace that humans simply can't aspire to. The most graceful human athletes just can't approach even your run-of-the-mill horses. Horses are living art.
 
Go on try to guess ...... okay so I am not very original :p
 
Garnet...it's one of my favorite gemstones (the other is a pearl). I may change it to Lady Garnet. For my b-day, my Dad gave me one of those packages where you get a spot (a square foot or square inch, I forget) of land in Scotland & the right to call yourself "Lady" or "Laird".:D
 
I usually just use my name, Gandalf Parker.
But my screen name is just as bland. Its my Internic whois ID from the earliest days of internet. The whois database included not only domain names but internet people also. For those hackers who can figure out how to query the whois database for people id's you can still get it to give you my full name, address, phone number, etc. So my login is the one that internet assigned me back when it was born.
 
Many trails = the various religions/belief systems etc.
One path = they all lead us to the same place they're just called different things and have different methods/traditions etc (my opinion).

I Kinda look for duality, metaphors, symbolism and that kind of stuff. I have some other thoughts about it as well but I don't want to bore you.
 
At first I thought the internet was just going to be a fad or another dial up service like Prodigy. I think I first caught on to it around 1995 or so and then found out what it was.
 
manytrailsonepath said:
Many trails = the various religions/belief systems etc.
One path = they all lead us to the same place they're just called different things and have different methods/traditions etc (my opinion).

I Kinda look for duality, metaphors, symbolism and that kind of stuff. I have some other thoughts about it as well but I don't want to bore you.
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When you feel like it, how aboots you share them with me in like another thread or something? I wouldn't be bored.
 
Dondi is a comic strip about a little Italian orphan boy that followed the American troops around during WWII. It was popular in the early fifties.

My favorite uncle used to call me 'lil ole Dondi' when I was a boy, a play on my real name. He asked me if I ever heard of Dondi, I told him frankly, no. But he continued to calling me that anyway. I use it in honor of his memory.

Had I decided to use a Deadhead moniker, I probably would have gone with 'Terrapin Flyer'. I like the album it comes off of, particular the song, 'Lady with a Fan'.
 
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