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I am more of a ‘hands on’ girl than ‘write down’ girl, which is the reason you do not see me very often here. I need fresh wind in my face rather than a keyboard under my fingers (unless it is a piano or a djembe..), but in order to let you know my side […]

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What is a true connection between a horse and a human? What does it involve? How can we recognise it? And why are some humans elated when such a connection occurs? These are just some of the questions that Vicki and I have been considering since the start of our two-week course with Petra Vlasblom […]

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He stands before me again, 2Moons. His stocky frame fills my view, cast golden in the morning light but still and ponderous like a heathen god announcing his presence, convincingly albeit in silence. I try to be casual, exude an air of nonchalance as though this is an everyday affair. The horse looks at me […]

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Finally, he stands before me, the horse whose near-mythological story has mesmerised me from the moment I first heard whispers of it a month ago. Here he is, compact, muscled, his copper-toned bulk fringed with flaxen mane and forelock grounded to the sandy surface of the picadero. His gaze is firm, unblinking. 2Moons has announced […]

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There has probably been a time in your life – possibly more than one occasion – when a serendipitous collection of circumstances ignited a spark of acute awareness of what comes next. And if you had followed that spark, had lived it like a horse as unpremeditatedly as it had occurred, what would have happened? […]

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