Embrace peace...

It is said horses fly without wings.  This is true, for they do.  With each stride a horse makes when galloping, three quarters of it are spent in the air soaring forward.  So whenever I would gallop my horses and soar, there is that thrilling, exhilarating moment where as one, my horses and I would leave the earth sailing on the wind.  That I was blessed to fly without wings as one with my horses is a treasure I am one of the privileged to hold onto forever.

In such a crazy world these days, let us look at peace, and pause a moment.  The word Selah means peace and pause, which is why I gave my horse Selah this name, because she was my separate peace.  As were 

all my horses.

You see many are living such busy nonstop lives, often as they reach the end the realization hits them of how much they have missed.  For when there is not time taken to get quiet to pause, our psyche does not get the nurturing and replenishing it needs.  We are not able to grasp those little things, which actually are the huge things we need to take notice of and grasp the most.  

Think of this:  if we rapidly plunge through a garden rather than experience a garden by walking, we deeply see so much more because we are taking the time to immerse ourselves in it.  And when we immerse ourselves in it, we appreciate.  We become aware.

We see deeply what the rest of the world may only glimpse.  

Here in the Horse Country region of Kentucky, the quiet rhythms of the horse permeate the human rhythms.  Visitors immediately "feel" this and often do not wish 

to leave this separate peace.  For one cannot help but become quieter experiencing this.  However, the rhythms of nature anywhere bring forth abundant gifts of peace and pause.

If you listen to the rhythmic sound of waves, there is a moment of pause between them.  The same if you stick your head into field grass as the wind blows.  To simply just trying to focus on nature's rhythmic pauses when we quiet ourselves, brings peace.  We are taken outside of ourselves as we do.

When Thoreau paused by going into the woods, 

Walden got written.  Monet painted his famous water lilly series.  Neil Diamond composed his monumental Jonathan Livingston Seagull soundtrack.  T.S. Eliot wrote his poem which eventually became the smash Broadway musical, "Cats." 

And Adelaide left the earth a thousand moments while flying without wings on her galloping horses.

Selah...

Immerse yourselves in peace, dear ones.🐎💫