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Jan 30
2 min

Beasts With Burdens: Introduction

I started writing about my experience with Dorian, because the journey we’ve taken together is so different from how many of the...

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vslachman

May 9, 2020
4 min

Back In The Saddle

The barn finally re-opened after close to two month's closure due to Covid 19. We're each allowed out to see our horses for two hours a...

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vslachman

Apr 21, 2019
3 min

Carry Your Own Weather

None of us have ever been in the situation we're now facing with the Covid 19 virus. If you have your horses at home, you have your...

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vslachman

Apr 20, 2019
4 min

The Run-Away

Who hasn't experienced the urge to run away? Or maybe the issue is "running in circles." Recently I listened to an interview with Father...

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vslachman

Apr 19, 2019
4 min

Right Where You Are

My friend Jim Lindsey is a wonderful poet and photographer who lives in a wild and windy Nova Scotian coastal town. I've known him for...

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vslachman

Apr 18, 2019
3 min

What You See Is Who You Are

Lately everywhere I look there seems one challenge after another--the world appears fraught with chaos and colliding interests, not many...

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vslachman

Apr 17, 2019
3 min

When A Cold Wind Blows

You'd think horses would turn their backs to the wind. It's interesting, because that idea is based on our human experience--who among us...

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vslachman

Apr 16, 2019
3 min

The Human-Horse Connection

"He is pure air and fire." Shakespeare, Henry V. Sometimes you have to let go of all that presses in on you, burdensome and heavy, and...

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vslachman

Apr 15, 2019
5 min

The World of Our Making

Morgan and her horse Captain were standing in the barn aisle as he got clipped and ready for training and showing. Soon Anne came by--her...

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vslachman

Apr 9, 2019
3 min

Winter's Chill

Things didn't look good. Sunday the temperature had been in the upper 60s, then on Monday the bottom dropped out, and when I got to the...

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vslachman

Apr 8, 2019
4 min

Heart Horse

Some of you may remember the story I told of John, pictured on the right, and Dorian last summer. They were both stalled in the same barn...

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vslachman

Apr 7, 2019
3 min

Light Our Way Home

There was an interesting study in Sussex, England, in 2018 which found that horses not only identify but remember facial expressions and...

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vslachman

Apr 6, 2019
4 min

The Self Beneath the Self

A very successful east coast business coach advocates bringing our "whole selves to work," and has a lot of ideas about how to do that....

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vslachman

Apr 5, 2019
4 min

Cultivate the Silence of Horses

Dorian isn't a big talker. He doesn't nicker or whinny normally. He doesn't call to his pasture mates, except on occasion. And he never...

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vslachman

Apr 2, 2019
5 min

Mirror

A while ago, my friend Anita was working with Dorian. She turned to me and with that knowing look said "Horses are so much like their...

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vslachman

Apr 1, 2019
4 min

Yielding

Dorian and I went on a slow ride under a big, blue sky and temps. in the 80s . . . after the winter and spring we'd had, we relished the...

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vslachman

Mar 31, 2019
4 min

Gift of the Morning

Have you ever lost nearly everything? Been at the moment quite near financial ruin? Had your health compromised in a way that made itself...

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vslachman

Mar 30, 2019
5 min

Changing the World

I worked with a lot of different horses at the rescue, mainly trying to understand what each one really wanted to do in his next career....

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vslachman

Mar 29, 2019
4 min

In the Eyes of a Horse

It was a hot day, pretty muggy, too. So Dorian and I headed to the indoor arena where there was shade, and a very slight breeze. I gave...

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vslachman

Mar 28, 2019
4 min

The Answer You Need

Dorian started doing this strange thing under saddle on the trail. And we'd ridden these trails probably hundreds of times. If I tried to...

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