Monthly Archives: November 2020

Are you afraid of… living a life?

Over the last six years of my life, I have been working with horses. Not for money, just for the fun of it. And what fun it was. In driving rain and freezing cold, knee-deep in mud or covered in … Continue reading

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The Tale of Ruffe

This is a Russian folktale about fishes acting in a suspiciously familiar, human-like way. The tale was kindly translated by Edgar Rops. Read and enjoy! Ruffe, busybody of a fish, piled his belongings onto a cart and drove from river … Continue reading

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The art of being a good horseman

In mid-seventeenth century, an English courtier, a Renaissance man, writes a treatise on horsemanship, in the preface to which he says ‘… no art in the world is as hard to learn as that of being a good horseman’ (‘… … Continue reading

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