We have many enthusiastic participants in our program, but there are only a handful that have been around this program as long as Chris has. Chris is taking a bigger roll in our program every day. Chris sent me what is set out for the blog. It is a great look at what the social isolation of the virus has cost us and a great prescription on how to get back in high gear.
It is currently the final day of February as I sit here and type this up. We've had a few brief glances of a happy spring weather followed by days of below freezing temperatures in the past weeks. The light shines longer in the day. Some horses have begun to shed their heavy winter coat, and there are a few spring grasses and shrubs beginning to force their way through the soil.
I'm not exactly sure what gave me the inspiration to decide to try and write something for the blog. I made a lot of changes to myself and my lifestyle in the past 6 to 9 months so why not try it. It is something I have been asked to do before but have always made excuses or shrugged it off as not important. I decided yesterday or the day before to give it a shot regardless of whether it's post worthy or not.
The other day I was looking back at the blog as a reference as to when something happened out at the horse lot. I noticed that the blog had a search bar on it. I had probably seen it before but never thought much of it because I thought you could only look up titles with it and sometimes Steve's titles are pretty wacky and have nothing to do with the subject matter. I found out that it really pulls up any article that really even has the word or words in it. I got curious and just started searching things. Eventually I started searching people who I know have or had a big impact on the program throughout its history--- Abigail, Audrey, Mandy, Tam, Lydia, Jen, Emily, Curie, and I'm sure many others who I forget to name here.
What I came to find I found extremely refreshing. There is so much history of the program in the blog. The history that I found the most refreshing was the history of the hospitality, happiness, and sense of community that this program has shown to me and many others throughout its history.
In a time when a virus has affected everyone In some way or another, many without them even knowing . People constantly looking over their shoulder or in constant protection mode like a horse in a new environment . Always ready to snap at any moment , whether it be verbally or taking it out in some other ways such as cutting themselves off from others or never helping others. It was so refreshing to just see posts about every participating family coming together to work together as one big family for lack of a better word. Regardless of different views or opinions. Everyone came together for one cause.
It wasn't a one time occurrence there's many different posts about different events or major program days.
I wasn't able to sit down and write this all at once but I believe that to maybe be a good thing because I really had time to work my brain and collect my thoughts on this matter. I strongly encourage every rider and program participant and their families to take time and truly dive through the educational archive that is this blog. You'll be surprised at just how much you find that can be applied to your involvement in the program or your life itself
It is now another one of those happy warm spring days and that will soon come to be a normal occurrence again as it has every year before.
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