Of Horses and Humanity: March 2011

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The ego, or individuated self-sense, is both your best friend and your worst enemy. It is your best friend because, in the most positive sense, it represents your capacity to individuate—to see yourself as a unique, autonomous entity and to bear witness to your own experience with some measure of objectivity. Individuation is what makes it possible for you to be a conscious agent of evolution, a vessel for Spirit in action. The more profound our individuation, the more powerfully Spirit can shine through us. However, ego is also our worst enemy. And this is because, for too many of us, over-identification with our separate individuality obscures the deeper and higher spiritual dimensions of our being. It is very important to understand this paradoxical nature of ego if you, as an individual, want to take responsibility for creating the future, as yourself.

~ Andrew Cohen

Monday, March 28, 2011

A Good Day

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Stroke of Insight

Saturday, March 26, 2011

1 Year Later...

Application of title

for Paisley!

Signed, sealed, delivered.

Yeah!

When The World Turns White

Opened the door to this!

Path to the barn... duck through the trellis.

Trudged through waist deep snow, opening a trail for the short legged little pup, to get to the barn and see how everyone was doing.

Past the laughing bird house.

The horses were all super mellow, just watching the snow fall and watching the big clumps drop from the tree branches.

Patchy

Sage

Ladybug

Paisley

Everyone got fresh dry hay...

and their itchies scratched.

The little people walk on paths of about 2+ feet of packed snow.
Had to dig the path down so Patchy could fit under the board that keeps the big horses from going into their spot.

Sweet little Misty Girl.

Their nice warm water under the snow.

Come on I'll show you the way home!

Weather man say's four more feet on the way!
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow....
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The Power Of Consciousness

Friday, March 25, 2011

Pioneers

If you are trying to do something genuinely new, you have to be a pioneer, you have to be a change-agent. In order to contribute to creating the future, you need to be aligned with the very edge of evolution. Otherwise, you are going to be following the beaten path, living out the patterns that have been formed by countless others. Most human beings are born and die within a pre-existent cultural context that we don't necessarily feel is up to us to define. Without even knowing it, we tend to do what everyone else is doing. But at this particular time in history, for new evolutionary stages, structures, and potentials to emerge requires rare and heroic men and women who have awakened to the conviction that this next step needs to happen and that we're the ones who have to take it.

~ Andrew Cohen

It Just Keeps Coming

It's snowing again today.

Looking at the barn from the house.

Going...

going...

gone!

What do the horses do?

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Let Everything Be Your Bible

Give every piece of information, person, event or circumstance your honest and open mind... then be responsible for your own choices.

Not following the human herd...

Segment and Trailer from Ben Stewart's movie Kymatica, the full length version can be seen HERE.
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Saturday, March 5, 2011

"Freedom" for Some

Yesterday, prompted by a friend who asked about video editing, I went back and looked at video taken last summer...

Video taken Aug 7, 2010

We called this family the Thunder Horses because right when they showed up the wind started blowing and the thunder roared!

This morning on Run With the Wild Ones blog I saw a photo taken November 14th, 2010, after the roundup that ran from Aug 11 until Sept 19, 2010. With a total of 1799 horses and burros gathered I didn't think there was any chance this family could still be together and out there.

But here they are!