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Here in the Netherlands we are currently blessed with a warm, sunny start to the autumn. As the trees begin to burn bronze at the edge and the first leaves parachute to the ground, the acorns and chestnuts are dropping while the season’s mushrooms and toadstools are springing up in their shade in time for […]

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Last week Pip and I had our first lesson with Jason Alexander Wauters, the most successful student to emerge from Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling’s one-year schooling programme, the only full one-year course he has ever given to date (yes, the same one Vicki and I were originally scheduled to attend). Since then I have had a […]

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As I contemplate riding Pip and the preparations required for this, I feel a pressing need to take stock of our achievements – my mare’s but predominantly mine – and to reassess the direction in which I am travelling in order to clarify the “big picture” within which these preparations are occurring and to adjust […]

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Standing in front of the noble head, the arching neck, the muscled shoulders and graceful legs of the horse, a human is asked a single profound question each and every time: Who are you? Are you two spirits: the one whom I sense you are and the one whom you claim to be? Or are […]

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In my last post I posed the question, To ride or not to ride?, and stated quite emphatically that this was not only the question, but the one all of us who are contemplating riding a horse should seriously ask ourselves before venturing onto the back of a creature whom we claim to love as […]

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