“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them […]
I love science. I always have. We owe many great things in our lives to science. I was lucky to have a riding mentor who devoured what science he could […]
You may hear someone refer to their horse as a partner. It is a frequent theme in many older writings – that you are creating a willing partner in your […]
It has been nearly a month between my first post and now. I was not ready to launch the site when it was Nash’s time to leave us; but, as my mother is wont to say, “Needs must when the Devil drives!” When I lost my Ben, companion of 28 […]
Today I had to make that terrible decision that anyone who has lived with animals for long knows is inevitable. It was time to say goodbye to my Appaloosa partner, and release him from his suffering. Nash’s ‘origin’ story is perhaps one of the most interesting of any horse who […]
The Literate Equine 