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On a random side-note before I get to the real meat of this post, this week I have been quite busy getting ready for the Rocky Mountain Horse Association International Show (aka the Internationals). I will be leaving next Thursday, Kentucky Horse Park bound, with my dad; sister; our stallion, Rocky; and Windy Gail, one of our mares. This is our first show, so we’re all excited, and there’s been quite a lot of worrying going on as well. No names will be mentioned, but for this time-it’s not me.
The picture I’ve included here is of my dad and I riding two of our horses: Rocky Mountain Man (right) is our stallion and a son of Sewell’s Sam, and Molley (left) is one of our mares (currently in foal to Rocky) and a daughter of Kilburn’s Chocolate Sundown. Rocky won the Grand Master Stallion title at the RMHA Internationals in 2004, so we’re bringing him back on his 10th anniversary.
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“The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and be determined to make them otherwise.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Science without God has no reason for being, for there is no good reason to study a universe that is only here by chance” -unknown
“It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall.” ~Mexican Proverb
“You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.” ~Will Rogers
“Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world.” -Jean Anouilh, The Lark
“It is our business, as readers of literature, to know what we like. It is our business as Christians, as well as readers of literature, to know what we ought to like.” T.S. Eliot
“May it be my great object to live a useful, holy life, and prepare to die a peaceful death” -Ann Hasseltine Judson
“I do not memorize. It is not necessary, for if you have thoroughly thought out your subject, it is like a ball of wool you wind, leaving the end to come out of the center. You start to pull, and it simply unwinds naturally as you go along.” William McGuffey
“In order to move forward in life, sometimes you have to let go… it doesn’t mean that what happened didn’t have meaning, it just means that you made peace with it.” -unknown
“A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously affected by it.” -unknown
I like those quotes! And best of luck at your show. You have some beautiful horses!