Christmas Cash

For those of you that receive a bit of cash for Christmas and will be looking to spend it over the next week or two let me make a few suggestions:

1. Buy Joe Camp's book, "The Soul of a Horse"
2. Buy "And a Little Child Shall Lead Them: Learning from Wild Horses and Small Children" which can be ordered directly from me.
3. Donate to the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, The HOA's Lido Fund, or USERL.
4. Enroll in our on line class "The Horse,, The Herd, and the Hoof."
5. Use the money to become part of something bigger than what you are.

This is a picture of Rebecca giving Annie, a USERL mustang one of her first rides. This picture illustrates just how one can become part of something bigger than one's self. This is a picture not just of a young women and a horse but of a movement. Rebecca is well schooled in natural horsemanship and natural horse care. She is mounted on a mustang, a group of horses feared and loathed by the established horse world. Not only that, Annie is a USERL mustang which means that she has 'no marketable value." To the established horse world, marketable value is the only kind of value that matters. To make matters seem even more ridiculous to the established horse world, Annie's owner is a retired school teacher, a novice who chose an untrained mustang for her first horse.

What could be more obvious than the fact that it would be impossible for a retired, novice to get on a mustang that was not even professionally trained and take her on a trail ride through the woods?

But for the fact that that is exactly what happened a few hours after this picture was taken, it would indeed be impossible, absurd even. But when one becomes part of something bigger than one's self impossibility falls by the wayside.