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January Blog Carnival
I have to ask your forgiveness for the blog carnival being a little late. I have all sorts of excuses, ranging from the plausible (enter New Year’s Eve, and an unexpectedly divine bottle of champagne that helped me ring it in) to the whinging (by the time I am an old woman, I will have already told enough mind numbingly boring stories about my various imagined or real ailments to bore the pants off an entire hospital-ful of nurses).
Never mind. The blog carnival is here now, which is what matters. Without further ado:
Karen Brenner presents Karen Brenner Blogs about her Horse Paintings and Equine Adventures posted at Horse Paintings by Karen Brenner, saying “Get organized in 2009 with Karen’s free weekly “To Do List” featuring her equine art.”
Liz Goldsmith presents Beet Pulp Fact and Fiction « EQUINE Ink posted at EQUINE Ink.
Sibyl White presents Sibylline Secrets: Rescue Horses posted at Sibylline Secrets.
Janet Roper presents Janet Roper::Animal communicator » Wisdom from the Horses: To Be or To Do posted at Janet Roper::Animal communicator, saying “What the horses teach about having …
Horses in Literature
Fellow Creatures
I pat the horses’ heads as I walk by.
They’re gentle beasts, and friendly; they don’t mind.
The gesture heartens me. I don’t know why.
At first, they did not trust me; they were shy,
suspicious. Maybe I don’t seem the kind
to pat a horse’s head as I go by,
And maybe I am not. I can’t deny
that might not seem a move I’d be inclined
to make toward great dumb brutes, and I know why:
They’re alien; they’re stubborn; they defy
their handlers. They’re not safe to walk behind.
I pat the horses’
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