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February 6th, 2010

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Welcome @PeXii, thanks for the follow :)

So I was at my sisters place the other day, it was a scorching hot day. I found myself siting on the grass in a paddock with this and one other horse in it. This one walked up to me and I felt a desire to get to my feet, but I stayed sitting while he gently smelt and slightly nustled my foot :)

  • Bannie

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    @Serendip What a beautiful looking animal, he's definately looking down on you! and what a superior air he has -it's as if he knows he's soooo handsome.

    February 6th, 2010

  • Serendip

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    @Bannie yes he is beautiful, I think he has some karthorse of some type in him because he is very large and has a curved neck, but no feathers on his feet. He is definately doing a formal aproach to me, with his ears forward and pranceing without hesitation towards me, until he was 15 feet away.
    He sure is a ruler of the padocks!

    February 7th, 2010

  • Rennybird

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    what a handsome horse. and it looks like it's beautiful there. all sorts of jealous, both of you being around horses and the weather.

    February 8th, 2010

  • Serendip

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    Hi @Rennybird :) You will have your summer, and then I will take your jealousy off you, even though the green suits you ;)

    February 9th, 2010

  • phainopepla95

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    @Serendip ~ Ow~! That was so beautiful it hurt! Horse nuzzles are unbelieveably tender for an animal so large. To observe them is to touch creation. Wondrous and beautiful animals, horses.

    February 12th, 2010

  • Serendip

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    @Phainopepla95 I had great inspiration my friend. I am sixword sensitive right now ;)
    I wonder if insects say that?
    He trod on me so tenderly...

    But it is true they are very gentle animals, in many ways they are like an indigenous race that have been displaced by Humans, but they have the grace to forgive us. :)

    February 13th, 2010

  • phainopepla95

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    Are you doing the #sixwordmemoir business?

    Near death lead him to belief.
    He often puttered in the yard.
    He loved typography as a craft.
    He made toad and snake habitats.
    Many people think he already died.
    Odd facts tangled in his brain.
    Fame came but in small snippets.

    I rode an Arabian gelding one summer who had better ideas. When he was tired, I walked. When we were around the fence from the stable, he became a thoroughbred on the race track, with me barely holding on. Among his own, he pranced and gambolled while I stewed about him making dangerous runs down hills and doing scary things like rearing up on his hind legs.

    In time, I learned to swat deer flies (painful biters!) that landed on his flanks. Then he began to tell me things in that eloquent horse language of gesture and soft sounds. Then I got down when I knew he was tired. Then I leaned into him so he became aerodynamic and was first to the stable. Then I enjoyed his joy at being among his own! Then he told me many horsey secrets that confirm your experience!

    February 13th, 2010

  • Serendip

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    I'm not sure what #sixwordmemoir is
    Six word one line haikus' right?
    Your horse sense is something special.
    You're most likely a human being!
    A name reserved for honoured people.

    Tiredness makes this difficult to do!
    Goodnight...

    February 14th, 2010

  • phainopepla95

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    They have a haiku-like starkness and (sometimes) sublimity, but the construct is Western and coincidentally that way, I think. @Pages2Type posted a National Public Radio feature on the #sixwordmemoir that is longish but thorough: I recommend you stop by for a listen. It's in his blog, but there is a link to it on the page he introduced the idea to the Daily Booth world. I'll locate it and post it for you below.

    February 21st, 2010

  • phainopepla95

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    http://pagestotype.blogspot.com/

    February 21st, 2010

  • phainopepla95

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    <embed src="http://www.npr.org/v2/?i=123289019&#38;m=123331558&#38;t=audio" height="386" wmode="opaque" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" base="http://www.npr.org" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>

    February 21st, 2010

  • phainopepla95

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    Wow! Nr. 11 gets you to the NPR story. The link to Scott's (@Pages2Type 's) blog is a bonus. I'm sure you know that!

    February 21st, 2010

  • Serendip

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    Hi @phainopepla95, I followed the link to @Pages2Type 's radio feature about #sixwordmemoirs but there was only talk about poisonous plastics, Renoir, and the ageing body! Which I did find all fascinating, it is true.

    I found the link on Scotts blog though and had a listen, I came up with these thoughts:
    They are not really connected and only vaguely similar to a Haiku (as originally concieved).
    They often are either a Title or Introduction to 'wet' the apitite for a discussion or talk on something. Many of them require external information for them to truely ring.
    #SixWordMemoir I think should be a subset of the genre #sixwordmusings...

    However, a lot can be said.
    Autobiography here, no extra space availble!
    Born, Cried, Learnt, Sighed, and Died...
    Live to honour those now passed.

    February 23rd, 2010

  • bactormo

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    That horse is a magnificent beast.

    October 25th, 2010

  • phainopepla95

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    Humbly he submitted to mob preferences.
    In the end he died quietly.
    His horse sense brought him joy!
    Many people came to praise him.
    Rarely the time he got drunk!
    He found Jesus the hard way.

    I forgot about this six-word autobiography, @Serendip! @janedoh's magnificent sunset brought me here. [There was a magnificent sunset posted by her that appeared the day I wrote this note. See link...]

    http://dailybooth.com/janedoh/9580023

    October 25th, 2010

  • Serendip

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    Isn't he @janedoh , kind of takes my breath away.

    Your eyes are reminding me, just for a moment, of someone from years ago...

    Thank you @phainopepla95 for bringing this to my attention, another chance to visit old times and (it feels like) old lives :)

    October 27th, 2010

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