We are changing radically as a program. I am not changing what so ever as a person. Colonel Sanders said that after he sold Kentucky Fried Chicken the mashed potatoes that the conglomerate produced tasted like wall paper paste.
The changes that we are going to make will not make us taste like wall paper paste. They will just allow me to produce more mashed potatoes.
What we do is unique. We teach little children and novice adults to tame and train wild horses and colts. We ride through rough, swampy terrain that most people would never consider riding through. We ride early in the morning and late at night. We ride and train stallions.
There are a lot of things that we can change that will bring in more revenue. I will consider those things, but if any of them would lead to the reducing of the quality of my mashed potatoes, I am not going to do them.
In short, to those who are concerned that our changes will cause us to lose some of what is special about what we do, stop worrying. Our Board of Directors are all people who share my desire to deliver more. The outside expertise and advice that I am relying on is invaluable. Tom Crockett is volunteering his years of experience to help us make this conversion. Without his hard work I would never be able to make our program as big as it can be.
Take a look at these two ancient stallions. They are not going to change. How they are is how they will be, until they cease to be. Take a look at that four year old on Tanka in the picture taken from behind the Little House. For fifty three years he has done things the way he wanted them done.
No reason to think that that is going to change now.
Down through history, the bright points...the points that are remembered, often emulated, the poignant, unusual, so.etimes terrible things...have very often been "what they say can't be done," funny how they seem to.
ReplyDeleteIt is increasingly difficult in this world to avoid the pressureds of conformity, whether or not whatever one is doing works or not..there is alaways so.e busybody out to change you..this is a bit of human nature that I find most offensive...particularly when the speaker has not walked the proverbial mile. We shall walk that mile, then trot that mile, then canter...then 25, 50...100...even if we have to do it dragging the naysayers through the swamp to get it done. (An entertaining thought. .impractical though it be..snow still spooks at dragging much..particularly if it is whining.)
It is telling that whatever criticism there is of Mill Swamp, it seems to come only from those who have not walked our mile, and the overwhelming litany of success stories that have entered adult life from here is even more telling. I cannot wait to see years hence what these young riders of the green swamp will accomplish. -Lloyd