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Life Happens: The Unplanned Dismount

Life Happens: The Unplanned Dismount

“I owned horses for 20 years until divorce happened,” the reader said, asking me to write about it. “I think they are the only thing that kept me sane and leaving them was the hardest thing I have ever done.” The reader said it was literally a matter of life or death. I believe her because isn’t that what it would take? Do you raise your voice with brassy bravado to say you would keep your horse…

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Photo & Poem: Saying Her Name

Photo & Poem: Saying Her Name

  As you say her name, your voice drops deep, a tight raspy croak. Not haunted with loss, but shaken with awe to ever be gifted such a

mare. A few brief years in the span of a human life is time enough give a face character. You lift your chin, pale lips giving way to smile-lines

under the brim of a hat, bright true eyes with white-linen wrinkles fanning onto cheeks, not weathered by sun, but war…

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