The Art Within the Art
Excellent advice, read between lines, best quote yet took me 10 years to learn it, another 30 years to figure out how to use it…
Years ago I bought a seventeen-year-old ranch horse by the name of Mouse. Mouse had endured many years of unfortunate handling that caused him to be pretty troubled around humans in general and strangers in particular. He was worried about being caught, he didn’t like to be saddled or tied or groomed or ridden. He didn’t like people touching him, or approaching him or moving around him in almost any way. In fact, the list of things he didn’t like was actually much longer than the list of things he did. Even so, and to his credit, he would always try to do all of these things that were troubling to him when asked because he had learned over the years that they were part of his job. He just didn’t like any of it much.
I got him from a friend who had bought him a year or so…
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