When you purchase a horse from a kill pen there often isn't much history that goes along with them. When I adopted Holly, I was told that she was in foal (She wasn't, just a big mare.) and that she had worked in a feedlot pushing cattle. I have my suspicions on her breed (Probably…
A herd of horses doesn't sleep all at once. Horses need to lay flat to get deep, restful REM sleep and this can take place in short increments (like 15-30 minutes) a few times a day. They also can rest by locking their knees and standing, and they do this for 5-7 hours a day.…
When I was going through my dark night of the soul after spiritual abuse, just thinking about spirituality didn't feel safe to me. The idea of contemplating spirituality, blogging about it, talking about it, being public with it in the ways I had been prior to the abuse (now over a dozen years ago), filled…