by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Oct 20, 2023 | Getting Real: The Blog
The huge horse turns his head all the way to the left, straining to see his herd mates in the pasture, from his right eye. The empty socket on his left side looks a little ghoulish, but it doesn’t bother him. In fact, he likes to have me rub inside it, where the skin...
by Elizabeth Love Kennon | Feb 28, 2021 | Getting Real: The Blog
The large roan gelding stands frozen, eyes cautious and unblinking. I sit to his left and behind, the belly of the long lead rope on the ground, giving the two of us space. The cold of the arena creeps into my back, and I breathe in and stretch my body down, asking...
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...
