"A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks - but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more than a loan." - Pam Brown, b. 1928
We need another and wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the spendor and travail of earth. Henry Beston, The Outermost House
Great web sites :
www.interfacelift.com ..... free Internet wallpaper, etc...excellent selection
www.skinit.com ...... "skins" for your cellphone, laptop, etc .......
www.thebrooke.org ..... fantastic organization, originated in England...helps donkeys/horses throughout the Middle East.
www.Woodwarddreamcruise.com .... yes, I have no shame ....listed this because..... it's all about those beautiful cars......
www.Detroityes.com ..... unique "tour" of Detroit....it's beautiful, have a look! (click on "tour Detroit, upper left hand side)
www.knockknock.biz ..... t shirts, notepads, etc ....hilariously funny sayings ......
www.Michael-Bryant.com ...for fans of the fabulous Holga camera .....
Hope you don't mind a blog about horses. I adore them, and below is a beautiful description of them by Albert Borgmann (from Crossing the Postmodern Divide, 1992).
YOU CANNOT REMAIN UNMOVED BY THE GENTLENESS AND CONFORMATION OF A WELL-BRED AND WELL-TRAINED HORSE --- MORE THAN A THOUSAND POUNDS OF BIG-BONED, WELL-MUSCLED ANIMAL. SLICK OF COAT AND SWEET OF SMELL, OBEDIENT AND MANNERLY, AND YET FOREVER A MENACE WITH ITS INNOCENT POWER AND INERADICABLE INCLINATION TO SEEK REFUGE IN FLIGHT, AND ALWAYS A BURDEN WITH ITS NEED TO BE FED, WORMED, AND SHOD, WITH ITS LIABILITY TO CUTS AND INFECTIONS, TO LAMING AND HEAVES. BUT WHEN IT GREETS YOU WITH A NICKER, NUZZLES YOUR CHEST, AND REGARDS YOU WITH A LARGE AND LIQUID EYE, THE QUESTION OF WHERE YOU WANT TO BE AND WHAT YOU WANT TO DO HAS BEEN ANSWERED.
