It has been an extremely eventful last few weeks, with moments between of reprieve. I spent a week and a half in the Seattle area visiting my sweetheart, only to return home and leave again for a short weekend in Illinois to enjoy “A Night of Amazing Horses” show. With travel always seems to be coupled a chance for some deep introspection. Taken out of my usual routine and places of comfort, meeting many different people and experiencing a variety of interactions; it gives me inspiration to write, create, etc.
I have been thinking a lot about horses, my own as well as others that I work with, those I watch being ridden and worked, so on and so forth. Horses in general, and people as well. That is what is so fantastic about horses, that even without being near them you can learn so much about interacting with them by the way in which people interact with one another.
Anyways, much of my thinking has convulged into a great realization today. I have touched on this before in my own mind but I guess the weight of it’s meaning did not fully sink in until today, or at least to this extent. We create the horse we work with. We create in the horse our own habits. We create in the horse a direct reflection of ourselves. The horse is ourself and we are the horse. Every nuance. Every name we call the horse is a reflection on ourselves, every response and it’s consistency (or inconsistency) we receive from the horse is a reflection of the responses we give the horse – right on down the line… :)