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I run a training barn and am a wannabe but nevergonnabe cowboy 

[zvch-jumper]

Whale takes on Temecula

[martirosova-e]

[dharmaart]

Acrylic on paper study of a bay horse. The reference I used was of a horse from a warm climate, because I love how bright and glossy their coats often are.

[jesuschristgrl]

O what a nice horsey

[aigle-suisse]

Corradino par Constanza Rousseaux Via Flickr : Holsteiner

[ilovelaica]

Condoctro (Cornet Obolensky x C-Indoctro)

Stallion presentation at Gestüt Sprehe 2019

© by me

[mother-of-friesians]

Influential sires: Dutch Warmbloods 

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Born in 1983 to Holstein bloodlines, Burggraaf (Landgraf I x Cor de la Bryere, died 2006) would become a successful influence in the jumping lines of KWPN. Successful in the show jumping ring himself under rider Roelof Bril, Burggraaf competed at 1.60m level and jumped over a 2.10m puissance wall during Indoor Brabant in 1991, of which I failed to find a video. 

Burggraaf would bring a long list of successful jumpers (and occasionally, dressage talents) of which over 30 are approved studs all around the world. Off the top of my head I can name Mermus R as one of them. While Burggraaf sadly passed away in 2006, Team Nijhof still has frozen sperm available for breeding today.  

[magnoliasporthorses]

Welcome Back to Esperada (Coronet Obolensky)

now to pick a stallion for 2021…. 

[on-white-horses]

Another throwback to the floaty pony in the spring

[mylittlehony]

The mare and the moon.

[yallmeansall]

Vaqueros in Mexico, 1965

[bovicola]

[outsidelinein5]

Traverse City Horse Shows @ Great Lakes Equestrian Festival 

© Andrew Ryback Photography

[horsesarecreatures]

T-Bone • Cuarto de Mila • @rancho_centinela

[almoststardust]

The Westbury Horse, 1939 by Eric Ravilious

Train Landscape, 1940 by Eric Ravilious

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

eventually you realize you don’t want to die. you just don’t want to live the life you’re living. and slowly you try to create a life you want to live. just gotta start there.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

no one needs to add “sounds fake but ok”, “no”, “well, not me”, “impossible”, etc. to this post. and i’d rather you not.

[duckbunny]

one day you think: I want to die.

and then you think, very quietly: actually. actually. I think I want a coffee. a nap. a sandwich. a book.

and I want to die turns day by day into I want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friend, I want to sit in the sun

I want a cleaner kitchen

I want a better job

I want to live somewhere else

I want to live

[zenosanalytic]

The thing to understand is that Depression

Even When It Is Trying to Kill You!

Is Defensive.

Your brain exists to preserve you; it’s just Dumb, and how it goes about “preserving” is determined by evolution’s ‘Good Enough’ meat-and-chemistry mechanisms rather than a firm grasp of biology.

You know how, stuck atop a burning building, ppl will sometimes throw themselves off in a vain hope of surviving? That’s what depression-driven suicide is. You are under THAT amount of stress, often sustained for a FAR longer time. Your brain only understands “Stress”: it doesn’t know causes, it doesn’t know Events, and it only has the one set of instinctive ‘extreme measures’ to fall back on. I made things SO hard on myself for SO Long conceiving of Depression as a Fight I had to Win, rather than a chronic illness in need of my understanding and careful management.

Help your brain. Nurse it. Ask yourself where it hurts and why. Recognize that the desire to die is a symptom, an injury, and not your ‘Truth’. Try to calm it, Try to endure: It WILL Pass. As perverse as it sounds, your desire to die is an expression of how PASSIONATELY you want to get away from the pain tormenting you; of how MUCH you want to LIVE. PLEASE Live!

[zvch-jumper]

Unrestrained summer fun