September 2, 2010

A couple of weeks ago I had a dream about someone  who was struggling for life because they could not catch their breath.  This is someone I actually know, who has in a round about way had an impact on me, having been present for some very major events in my life. As such a presence I have learned over the years to hold them somewhat close – like family.  They on the other hand have no idea.  Not a thought!  In my dream I ran hither and fro to find someone to help save their life.  Then I woke up. I’m not close enough to this person to really know anything about what goes on in their life, however living in a small town some news does travel around. Talking to another friend tonight, we discussed dreams and their possible deeper meaning.  Later it came to me that the person I dreamed about had recently lost a pet… a pet that had a mission, a purpose that had very deep meaning for the object of my dream, and was very close to succeeding in that purpose.  The loss was senseless and helpless. The entire communities feelings were palpable. Being empathic, I felt the empathy, sympathy, and for some the “attitude” or “opinion”  in many cases not favorable… the primary feeling of the town though was one of sadness.  The dream I had occurred a few days after the pets demise. I had wished that I could offer some sort of support to help with the pain of loss.  But that opening is not available to me.  Now it makes sense. I could feel the persons pain  and the communities awareness like it was water touching my skin. Feeling helpless to help.  So in my dream I scampered around trying to find help to save a life, not really being able to make a difference.  Why such a sad story for Thankful Thursday?  Because I realize that I still am connected, that I feel so much more of my surroundings. Something I thought I had shut down  before moving to Colorado.  But my connection to other living things, and people is very much alive and searching for a way to express itself. If only in my dreams for now. I feel like I’m able to open back up and let the empathic juices flow again.  So again my distant friend… you have impacted my life in yet another powerful way.  I wish only the warmest and most generous journey in life for you.

On to a friend whom I am exploring for the second time in life.  He too has given me a gift. Again tonight, while visiting about dreams with my friend, we also touched on other gifts that come in some very surprising packages.  My renewed friendship with a very special man whom I’ve always held feelings for comes after a darker period in our relationship.  Not really dark as in dank and perilous, but just non existent (12 years non existent).  Recently he has shared with me several times that we are embarking anew, the past doesn’t exist for us. We are just meeting fresh and beginning a new journey.  I’ve had to absorb this and fondle it…   and it resonates with me.  As my life each day is one of a new journey!  My friend has freed me of the past. He has opened the gates to allow this mare to run free, take in the wind, soak up the sun and to come to him as she feels the need.  A perfect symbiotic relationship. One of no encumbrances.  How I wish others could find this path and the love and joy and most of all FREEDOM that comes with it.  Thanks HANDSOME COWBOY…  I really do find you (the person you are from your earthly soul to your captivating mind), so very alluring and safe. I wish only to offer the same in return.

I am so thankful for the realizations that came today, for my friend who traveled down the path with me toward these discoveries… HUGS Maryanne!

There is always something to find gratitude in.  Even if it’s found in a dream… or offered as a place from which to begin anew.

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July 8th, 2010

Its been a few months now since my last post. Snow has melted,  rivers have over flowed with raging waters to settle down to good fishing. Wild Flowers are blooming and wildlife is on the move. People have steadily converged upon our little town to explode during the 4th of July festivities.  Now we are on the down side again, people slowly drifting away.  Mountains are green. We had some warm summer days  that have given way to cooler temps and thunder rains.

I’ve made new friends, am working on cultivating more friends and made a  mistake that caused some discomfort with someone I care about. But hey we are all human right. We get past the crap and move on.

All in all I am so very happy and content in my little town.  I have spent three to four days a week jogging back trails or hiking steep mountain sides to sit under the sky and soak up the sounds and smells of the wilderness.  The soft touch of the wind on my skin always puts a gigantic smile on my face.  If I can find someone to casually share these things with my life would be at its most perfect space in time.

I haven’t taken any pics this spring or summer to share.  Some things you just have to experience in person to understand the impact they have.  To represent how I feel though and how free I am and the joy in life I am experiencing…

I give you Celt’s Prophecy…

(Photo Courtesy: Kathy of Kickapoo Center Spanish Mustangs – Wisconsin – Pro is my 2 year old colt from the last of my breeding program who is staying with Kathy for the next year before I bring him home to Silverton, Colorado.)

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Apr 7, 2010

The windows wide open, fresh air filling the room, Bright sunshine filtering in, this was a glorious day!  Started with breakfast with my friend Pam, then home to organize stuff for a bit. Later comes a visit from Mark Garvin one of the resident carpenters in town.  Mark is a master worker!  He transformed my so so bathroom into a spa retreat in no time at all and with little expense to me and great suggestions.  Only a couple more things need to be done to finish my vision and make the space a wee bit more user friendly and wallah(!) a gorgeous inviting place that’s functional and friendly.   Maryanne, Marks wife is the owner and fitness guru of Silverton Movement Center and has become a great friend.  She sent home with me something really cool today to go with my retreat.  It’s called “CALDREA” (countertop cleaner and liquid dish soap), and it smells heavenly and its a safe product.  Okay I have a new product line that I’m buying my household cleansers from!! I came right home and started wiping down the bathroom surfaces with it, relishing in how wonderful it cleans leaving the bathroom smelling wonderful.  I’m getting some of this stuff for Heather to try!!!  Maryanne also set me up with a couple and possibly more massages this weekend at her massage site. Bring ‘em on!  Mark and Maryanne are just really good people and I am very thankful that I have met them both and that they have been so welcoming to me since moving to Silverton.  Truly, I may not have done as well as I have if not for Maryanne’s referrals and support, and I would not be as happy in my abode if not for Marks creation.  Thank you guys!

Pro is not coming home this summer.  It was really causing me hardship to pull it off this soon. Kathy of Kickapoo Center Farm, who is such a sweetheart, is letting him stay at her place, in Wisconsin, until I can move him comfortably.  It takes a huge burden off of me since June is coming right around the corner and I haven’t had the opportunity to locate an affordable boarding situation. Kathy has been a Savior, a Saint, and a good friend!  Thanks Kathy.

Okay that’s it for today’s Thankful Thursday folks. I’m off to spend the evening with Dragon (the bearded dragon), and Cookie (the guinea pig). Great companionship!

Happy Thankful Thursday, All!

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Apr 1,2010

I know its been awhile since my last Thankful Thursday. I’ve been so filled up with great stuff in my life, that I just have been too busy enjoying it all.  Thought today I’d revisit some gratitude for how awesome my life has been recently.

Krissy my bestest friend in the whole wide world came from Arizona to visit me here in Silverton. She brought her man, Jesse,  and son, Evan, with her and we all had a great time. Krissy and I just kinda hung out together, while Jesse, went snowboarding and adventuring.  We all hung out a bit with Heather and Malcolm and played some Xbox.   I keep going back over the awe I feel when I think that Krissy made this huge attempt to come see me.  I’m just not use to that happening.  I’m so thankful for your effort Krissy.  Loved getting to know Evan better and playing grandma.  I’m thankful for Jesse too, for making it possible for you to drive the ten hours each way be with family.

Ive been eating  a paleo ‘type’ diet the past two weeks and am finding that I feel great!  I have had some large toe joint issues that I have assumed was from having my feet stomped on repeatedly over the years by horses.  The other night though I discovered that it may be more to do with gout than the bone spurs. Over the last couple of years I’ve been working toward a more alkaline diet, but of course fall off the wagon occasionally.  Well having read up on nutrition regarding gout and finding that many of the non meat paleo foods are great for lessening the affects of gout. So I am trying  them, and guess what? Three days and my large toe joints don’t hurt as bad. Really I’m not really noticing them.  Makes me want to jump for joy. Especially since I have also discovered that my knee will now allow me to jog!!! YAY!!  I can jog again without pain, which makes me feel like I’m living again.  I love learning about nutrition and how its helps our bodies cope and grow.

When Krissy came to visit she brought me Cookie, the sweetest most adorable guinea pig.  I am having so much fun getting to know her and she is the liveliest, busiest piggly wiggly you could ever imagine.  She has a cavie corral  which is approximately 2 by 4 feet and she makes good use of it scurrying around playfully kicking up her heels like a young foal in play. She comes over to the corner of her corral that is closest to where I sit at night and waits for me to pick her up and cuddle with her. She loves to scramble up around my neck and sit behind me on the pillow I lean against.  It’s just nice having someone warm and soft and cuddly to commune with.  Perfect for my small space living style.

Most of all I am so enjoying my new bathroom. Still waiting for the curtains to be finished and my frames so that I can put up my artwork up on the freshly painted walls.  By the end of this month it will be competed and then I’ll share pictures of it.  Its going to be a mini spa experience every time I go in there. I smile every time I do.

Saturday, Heather will come to enjoy the spa retreat.   I’m fixing it up for her to come soak in the heavenly claw foot tub tucked away within a grove of yummy tropical plants in a beachy like atmosphere.  She needs a “me” day. My heart swells so huge, when I can do things like this for my baby.

Tonight I am having homemade quail stew. Going to experiment with carrots, onions, and yams replacing the typical potatoes.  Yams are part of my alkaline movement in foods.  Being slightly sweet they should compliment the mildly gamey quail.

Life is good in Silverton. I’m so happy to be HAPPY again. I smile a lot just hanging out here in my little abode.

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Mar 5, 2010

Well I skipped last Thursday’s Thankful Thursday.  The day just got away from me.  By the time I got around to thinking on gratitude I was drained and brain dead.  I just  thought for a few moments on all the things I had to be grateful for and hit the sack feeling bountiful.

Today, I’m feeling pretty drained again but do not have any jobs to do. A day off!  Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!!  Ha!  Like I don’t get enough days off…   I just seem to need this day to recoup. Thursday has become my Sunday. The day I reflect, and express, and rest, and heal.

Those of you who follow me on twitter and facebook already know that Celt’s Prophecy will be coming home.

Celt’s Prohecy (Pro) at 1 year in Arizona

Not sure when this will take place, but its definite.   Lots of details to work out but I am anxious. I must say after having to leave him behind and struggling through his mothers disease and death, after trying to leave it all behind, I am so thankful that Pro is coming home. I guess I made my own destiny when I started some 11 years ago to produce this colt. I thought I was working on the future of the Spanish Mustang breed. Seems though I was working on my future with one special horse. Instead of improving the breed, Pro has served to improve who I am and who I will become.

Short synopsis:

I bred quality Spanish Mustangs, individuals that many people admired. I saw a decline in a certain type and quality with in the breed and set out to do something about it. In the process and due to decisions I lost all but one of  my founding stock. A mare named Celt’s Kindlewood.

(Celt’s Kindlewood 3 months before being put down due to DSLD/ESPA complications)

She actually belonged to my daughter Heather and I  watch sentinel over the mare. Having done all the right things, allowing her to mature to 5 years before riding her, training her slowly over her entire lifetime, became one with her, giving her the best care. finding the right stallion to breed her to and acquiring him having negotiated for two years on related stock and waiting for his arrival for an additional year.  All very carefully executed. Having done all the right things its comes down to a colt who was to carry the torch.  Celt’s Prophecy – not the end result but the beginning of the future. A colt who will be gelded and become a backyard buddy. Why you ask?  Because after all that, Kindlewood came down with DSLD/ESPA, a degenerative systemic disease believed to be inherited.   DSLD/ESPA (video of the diesese) sometimes never raises its ugly head, or not until a horse is aged. However, sometimes it takes young horses by surprise. It took Kindlewood at age eight.  All my plans went out the window because I cannot allow my horses to pass this horrible painful disease into the breed.  I’m convinced that the breed already has its share of the disease floating through its DNA as does most all modern breeds and there is no way to test for it at this time to be sure.  It’s just safer to geld Pro, hope that he stays sound, and hope that others who discover the disease in their bloodlines will do the same with their breeding stock.

Kindlewood died Halloween of 2008 as an eight your old  mother of  the future.  Irony,  “Future”,  my greyhound died two weeks later.

Kathy Freymiller of Kickapoo Center Farm graciously took Pro from me to help me out.  I just was not able to bring him to Colorado with me. I had exhausted my resources trying to save his mother and was now in debt over my head. I thought Pro was gone for certain and my horse days were gone with him.  Then…

I get an email from Kathy, and my life has taken another turn. Just like that! Snap your fingers Pro comes home and things are different than they ever would have been.

Reborn…I seem to be reborn every few months lately.  Horses are back… but this time in a very different way. More like it was when I was a child with Chiefy, my gelding companion while I was growing up.  Pro and I will explore life’s gifts together. I get a second chance to  grow up. Only this time I have the wisdom to not “quite” grow up…

My old best friend Asad, during my grown up days, and his grandson Prophecy my new childhood cohort.  I promise we will be into all kinds of mischief. I promise not to grow up.

My senses are completely overwhelmed with gratitude.  I have been so humbled, I am so humble. Thank you from the very depths of my soul!

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Feb 18, 2010

It’s not going to be about me today. Instead I want to share with you how others perceive Gratitude. Quotes from people who have a rich sense of  thankfulness. Wisdom begot from observations and or personal trials.

There is no harder lesson to learn for some of us than to be grateful with utter sincerity.  To freely, openly, and with utmost bravery let go of our safe entombment of attitudes on all fronts in order to be grateful to its truest purest sense.

So if we carry around a stone in our heart – If I remain captive of the fact that someone holds me in disgust because I was willing to put a horse down rather than see it go out into the world and be  subject to a life of pain and abuse, then I try to heal myself by saying thank you for the food and warm home I posses, am I truly being thankful? Or am I being selective, holding my stone tightly within my heart while babbling about being grateful?  I believe that in order to be truly grateful we must let go of our stones.

(This is how I perceive most hearts, mine included.)

Gratitude, the act of being thankful can heal us of our burdens. By casting out the stones in our hearts sometimes one at a time over time or instantly we begin to shine inside and heal from past and present wounds. I see this as the first step to healing our world. One person, one stone, one act of “pure” gratitude at a time.

(This is how I perceive Gratitude (water) as it cleanses us of our stones, if we allow them to be washed away.)

An now some quotes to ponder… They pretty much touch on how I view gratitude and the act of faithfully participating in Thankful Thursday.

FREDERICK TURNER:   To those who followed Columbus and Cortez, the New World truly seemed incredible because of the natural endowments. The land often announced itself with a heavy scent miles out into the ocean. Giovanni di Verrazano in 1524 smelled the cedars of the East Coast a hundred leagues out. The men of Henry Hudson’s Half Moon were temporarily disarmed by the fragrance of the New Jersey shore, while ships running farther up the coast occasionally swam through large beds of floating flowers. Wherever they came inland they found a rich riot of color and sound, of game and luxuriant vegetation. Had they been other than they were, they might have written a new mythology here. As it was, they took inventory.

H. U. WESTERMAYER:   The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.

MARC ESTRIN:   Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.

JOHN F. KENNEDY:     As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

(This image by Montague Dawson British Master Nautical Painter – Painting/Print/Note cards – is for sale at Encore Editions for $15.00 – Please visit this fine site to find many more exquisite paintings.)

Why a painting of a ship on a peaceful ocean you ask? My perception of bounty and a completely free spirit – cleansed of its stones. The feeling and healing one reaps from Gratitude…

BLISS

For more gratitude/thankfulness please visit these sites: Akal Ranch – Tired Dog Ranch – Enlightened Horsemanship Through Touch – From The Horses Back – Grateful For – Jonathan Lawson of mysnowpro.com – Maryanne Garvin of the Silverton Movement Center – Gemini and of course our guest blogger Zebrafinch… OUR CIRCLE IS GROWING

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THANKFUL THURSDAY by ZEBRAFINCH (guest blogger)

This week, a blizzard hit our region with astounding efficiency. Everyone stayed home, work was canceled, and even traffic nearly disappeared. People realized this storm was the real deal and did not argue with it. The resulting giant white vacuum chamber got very quiet within hours.

What happens when life goes from overwhelm to a stand still? Again, gratitude was my tool for mining stillness and empty space. But there really are no empty spaces, I think. If anything, maybe empty spaces are the moments we miss, because we were never there.

My ritual “count my blessings” walk across the “largest unreinforced concrete structure in the world” the bridge outside my door—

(This amazing image of the William Taft Bridge in Washington DC was taken by Declan McCullugh – Please check out his work)

( Wikipedia William Taft Bridge – http://tinyurl.com/yzq47dk )

—was more interesting for the twilight-spooky snow. The railing between me and a creek 125 feet below seemed frail and small. I was more aware of the spaces between balusters and the frosted treetops. The entire landscape was so quiet you could hear a mouse burp. I was reassured by cars rolling slowly by and glowing lamp lights.

I began: “I exist, I grow, I love, I explore, and I thrive.” This was my energy healer’s mantra for me during the darkest days of my Lyme disease. It now helped to propel me 1,000 feet across the ice. By force of habit and intention, thankfulness began crowding out my fear of slipping or falling. I pondered how many seasons I had missed by not really being present to their passing. I resolved on the bridge to anchor the loveliness of this winter by being consciously thankful for its structural gifts: darkness; lamplight; soft snowfall; blessed cold, fresh air; silence; even restrictions.

I continued: “I am grateful for my friends, seasons, peace, my warm coat….” Snow attached to all that made my week so special. Dear friends and I had lunch before a fireplace and watched feather-like flakes descend. We later had wine in a beautiful hotel. It was a rare day when our schedules were cleared for friendship, nature, food and conversation. I learned something new about people I had known for over 30 years. Snow will help me remember this rare and special time. Thanks, snow.

Seasons and weather as reminders of abundance kept coming back to mind. What is it about weather that many people resist? Blizzard? Yay! It insulates the soil and protects little animals. Rain? Bring it on. Plants and animals will drink all summer, and trees will have big, shady canopies. Sun and heat? (OK, I’m working on this one.) I do not need memories of summer—or any other time—to get me through winter. I am thankful for this winter for what it brings now. We’ll see how that adds up.

Blizzard Washington DC Feb 19, 2010 by Zebrafinch

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Feb, 11, 2010

Been putting a lot of thought into Thankful Thursday and what I have to contribute today.  It has been hard to come up with new stuff to discuss.  Why?  Because I live a very simple life and I am equally grateful for the things I continuously speak of. My family, this town, my abode, my creature friends and plants.  Grateful for my clients and friends, for the snow, for the mountains, for the sunshine gleaming off the mountains. Grateful for the continued improvement of my health and healing.  This is my world, small yet huge!

Last week I discussed health benefits obtained from the act of being grateful. Every Thankful Thursday post discusses how gratitude is changing my life. So what cold really stand out today?

1) first and foremost – My daughter, Heather tells me that she and her husband Malcolm had sat down the other day to discuss how their parents would manage in our elder years.  They came up with a plan for me. I don’t have a retirement so they came up with a way that I’ll have a home for the rest of my life, and I kinda like their solution. I’m proud of my kids. Heather was worried that I’d be offended – I  told her I was proud, that her concern spoke of the the way my parents raised me and how I raised her. I’m so thankful for the lessons I learned from my parents and what I was able to pass on to Heather. I’m one PROUD and GRATEFUL mom!

2) my friend Krissy is always looking out for me. She listens to me and knows my heart. I told her awhile back that I wanted to get a guinea pig for a cuddly pet that I could keep in my apt in an orderly manner. So she went right out and began researching guinea pigs. I mean she researched them, then started searching for them, then got herself one, then found the exact piggy I had told her months ago that I would like to have. Check out Cookie.

Isn’t she just adorable?!!  I like guinea pigs (cavies) because you manage them much like horses, you even make corrals for them, feed them hay, groom them and more similar things.  They become friendly like horses and to some extent are even trainable like horses. So I have my own little horse like critter to care for without the hard work and huge space and cost.  Well actually Cookie will come up to Silverton with Krissy and her family when they come to visit in a few weeks.  I am so thankful to you Krissy!  I so appreciate you always going far and beyond to see my happiness flourish.  You are the best friend anyone could ever have.  I am so thankful that Cookie is coming to live with me.

I’m so happy!

We had a visitor here on THE PONY EXPRESSION recently who also  shares in Thankful Thursday’s – meet Gemini and check out their blog for another approach to being thankful.

For more gratitude/thankfulness please visit these sites: Akal Ranch – Tired Dog Ranch – Enlightened Horsemanship Through Touch – From The Horses Back – Grateful For – Jonathan Lawson of mysnowpro.com and of course our guest blogger Zebrafinch,  and our newsest Heart of Gratitude Maryanne Garvin of the Silverton Movement Center… OUR CIRCLE IS GROWING

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Like so many of us  my very best friend Krissy has been struggling with a debt. She has always been focused on having good credit and doing right by her lenders.  But  the economy hit and her debts started growing.  We have all been there, if not we will be at some point in our lives.  For the past few months she has been researching how to settle her debt. After much thought, she was able to find a settlement that made her feel good about herself and she is free and clear.

I’m so proud of her!

Well I had a goal set, I had hopes it would happen and it did.  I’m happy I can come on my trip to see you and be free and clear of this headache of a debt. I will be happy when I get my next massage it will feel great and there will be little to no stress. Whatever is left of the stress will be washed out and taken away…those nasty toxins…gone!

Krissy: my Thankful Friday!

Let Krissy give you hope. Do right by others, do right by your debts – it will flow back to you.

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Feb 4, 2010

I thought maybe I’d discuss a bit about the health benefits of being grateful. From a quick search on the subject I came across this study on how gratitude affects the human condition.

Listed on a project synopsis of  Dimensions  and Perspectives of Gratitude are the following disposition modifications that gratitiude can affect

MEASURING THE GRATEFUL DISPOSITION
Most people report being grateful (an average rating of nearly 6 on a 7 point scale).

Well-Being:  Grateful people report higher levels of positive emotions, life satisfaction, vitality, optimism and lower levels of depression and stress.  The disposition toward gratitude appears to enhance pleasant feeling states more than it diminishes unpleasant emotions.  Grateful people do not deny or ignore the negative aspects of life.

Well-Being  or the feeling of enhanced pleasant feeling was the first thing I experienced after writing my Thankful Thursday posts. Having the feeling expand into my world on a daily basis was harder. I was immersed in my mares struggle and death, my world being up rooted losing a parent, my dog, and discovering certain friends were not friends at all. But as thoughts and feelings came in to my consciousness, I worked to dispel them with thoughts of gratitude. After many Thankful Thursday exercises in gratitude the sense of pleasant feelings began to take hold.  Now the pleasantry of daily life is a way of life, and unpleasing experiences and feelings are few.

Prosociality: People with a strong disposition toward gratitude have the capacity to be empathic and to take the perspective of others.  They are rated as more generous and more helpful by people in their social networks (McCullough, Emmons, & Tsang, 2002).

I have always been empathic – to a fault actually. I have not seen a lot of change in this department since embarking on a path of Gratitude.  But I do believe that my empathic abilities could be enhanced through gratitude with little effort.

Spirituality:  Those who regularly attend religious services and engage in religious activities such as prayer reading religious material score are more likely to be grateful.  Grateful people are more likely to acknowledge a belief in the interconnectedness of all life and a commitment to and responsibility to others (McCullough et. al., 2002). Gratitude does not require religious faith, but faith enhances the ability to be grateful.

Spiritually I think I am more able now to open up to a broader spiritual experience and without any routine services, I feel more connected to the Supreme Being, Universe, Creator, Mother Earth, and all her children (finned, winged, four legged, no legged and two legged)

Materialism:  Grateful individuals place less importance on material goods; they are less likely to judge their own and others success in terms of possessions accumulated; they are less envious of  others; and are more likely to share their possessions with others relative to less grateful persons.

The one most important aspect of gratitude for me other than being so happy much of the time now, is the freedom from materialistic things. I’m so far removed from them now I can’t comprehend why people need so many things. The process of letting go and moving to a new lifestyle would have been an emotional disaster for me if I had not had gratitude for what I have inside of me and favored what was inside of me over what belongings I had to let go of.  I feel so light, so free, and strong to do with my life as I wish.

Photo found at: Animals Pctures

Along with what was included in the Project above I found this little tidbit and I can say that I have become the person described in the following example:

PROFESSOR ROBERT EMMONS’ RESEARCH

University of California Davis positive psychology professor Robert Emmons’ research indicates that “Grateful people take better care of themselves and engage in more protective health behaviors like regular exercise, a healthy diet, (and) regular physical examinations.” His research finds that grateful people tend to be more optimistic, a characteristic that boosts the immune system.

Read more at Suite101: Gratitude Improves Your Health: How to Be Healthy with Gratitudehttp://personaldevelopment.suite101.com/article.cfm/gratitude_and_your_health#ixzz0ece8hCCj

I have to acknowledge that gratitude is my salvation. It can be yours  too, whether you are stressing over a job, or no job, struggling with your health, or losing touch with your family or wanting to deepen your relationships.  I believe if we embrace gratitude something miraculous happens to us.  Mentally spiritually and physiologically we become healthier stronger and in a sense more powerful in our own lives.

I’m grateful, for this understanding has enhanced my life, given me power over my desires and needs, my health and  has created balance in my life. I’m happy, with improved health, a sense of generosity, open mindedness, forgiveness, appreciation.

For more gratitude/thankfulness please visit these sites: Akal Ranch – Tired Dog Ranch – Enlightened Horsemanship Through Touch – From The Horses Back – Grateful For – Jonathan Lawson of mysnowpro.com and of course our guest blogger Zebrafinch,  and our newsest Heart of Gratitude Maryanne Garvin of the Silverton Movement Center… OUR CIRCLE IS GROWING

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