by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Feb 13, 2021 | Getting Real: The Blog
Buddy freezes, his generously sized ears straining towards the line of Canadian geese, strut-waddling just outside the back arena fence; the scary side, with tiny fox prints in the screenings each morning. It doesn’t matter that we’ve had Canadian geese at the...
by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Jan 20, 2021 | Getting Real: The Blog
Deetz, our alpha gelding, met me at the paddock gate, eager to come out. Between the cold of January and the crazy amount of rain we’ve been getting, grass is scarce, and mud abundant. He was humming with desire to find something green and growing, so we threaded our...
by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Jan 10, 2021 | Getting Real: The Blog
The large mare braced her neck in response to a gentle lift of the right rein; the softness of a moment ago evaporating, as she readied for a fight I never intended to pick. Underneath the bareback pad, her muscles clenched and breathing froze. The mare I had just...
by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Dec 28, 2020 | Getting Real: The Blog
Five women faced each other around the circle. I gave myself a chance to breathe, wondering if I could do this, if the work I’d been doing out with my horses would translate to others. I’d opened up space to do an afternoon workshop, just for a few hours, and now it...
by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Dec 21, 2020 | Getting Real: The Blog
Starting points frame a conversation, and it took me a long time to realize one of my most basic starting points revolves around drama. Not over-the-top drama, as I was never comfortable with that, but drama, nonetheless. We’re drawn to drama. It’s a human thing. We...
