Archive for August, 2010

Upon the Air


2010
08.22

Upon the air the moon is high
The darkness floats into the night
As it runs across the sky
And gets into a flurry fight
The snow then comes sparkling down
Shimmer, glimmers as it falls
And drifts upon the silent town
In the hay and in the stalls
The air is cold, their breath is hot
They stomp their feet and breathe a neigh
They wear warm blankets that we’d bought
As they bed down to rest in hay

The town is silent as it rests
The snow looks charming, at its best.

–Amber Hopwood

A Grand Passion


2010
08.07

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire.  It is a grand passion.  It seizes a person whole and, once it has done so, he will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

–Ralph Waldo Emerson