This Year

The pleasure of a good horse, good dogs and a fresh trail

This year is going to be a bit of a flyer.  Friends ask if I will be competing with the horses, and what our travel plans might be, and I am simply at a loss to answer them.  

My routine was already thrown with the new job, and then my Dad fell so sick and died 90 days ago.  I am coming to terms with it all, and I try to answer these questions:

• How am I doing?
• What am I going to carry with me from this experience?
• What am I going to leave behind from this experience?

I love how the animals and gardens draw me outside to do something in nature as springtime takes hold.  I go through the motions and let them bring me a little joy again.  Ehren takes me for a lovely walk around the property, Ludi nuzzles my hair and wraps his neck around me in a big horse hug, Andy twinkles and asks for sugar, and beautiful old Belle casts her calming spell on me.  

It's about all I could ask for right now.