Maintain Contact with Influential People

A conversation over food goes a long way

We rode in the morning. We are having lunch at BoJangles Diner in Kalispell. Malts and burgers and fries. Breaking bread or sipping a malt together is a great way to build rapport.

There have been plenty of people in my life who have gone on to bigger and better things. I do not believe it is manipulative to want to maintain those relationships. There are plenty of poor powerless people who I try to keep as friends, too.

I try to maintain relationships with everyone.

You care about those other people. They will know if you care about them. They will listen to you if you care about them.
If someone is rational and not crazy, you will be able to influence him some. Better  some influence on him than none.
Could people or friends who knew Hitler or Stalin or Saddam Hussein have been able to modulate the intensity of those despots’ actions by being involved in those men’s lives and being involved at earlier stages?
It is worth a try. What made those men go off the deep end? Could it have been prevented by sane caring friends?

Sometimes you have to go to war; better sooner than later

Tom is way out of the saddle on this jump.

Tom’s form here is poor. Wouldn’t it be better for the horse and for Tom if people, instructors, riders mentioned it to him and offered to help him improve. If he was doing it out of malice, they would have to take a different firmer approach, like a small action to prevent a greater harm from occurring

In reading Winston Churchill’s account of World War II published by Life magazine he says ” The war could have been prevented many times through relatively small actions.” Germany overtook Chekozlovakia while Germany had thirty divisions. France had seventy. That would have been a smaller war that would have prevented a bigger war.
I am changing my tune. Maybe it is impossible to have peace all the time. Maybe there has to be checking and balancing between countries and within countries.
The trick is to put down the bully before he gets to large and dangerous.
To prevent wars we will have to figure out how to keep the bully from coming to power. Bullies in any country are a danger to all countries because of what cycles of violence they can start.

Thank God and American diplomacy that Gaza is more at peace Today

Thank you people of Israel and Gaza for not killing each other today.  Thank you for agreeing to a cease fire.  America needs to try to be involved in every place that it has any influence when individuals are committing mayhem on each other.

 

I think the US has an embassy in every country around the world (almost) and it is reasonable for those diplomats to know what is going on in that country.

 

How hard would it be for the American diplomats to offer to help?  “How can we help you?  How can we help you not treat each other unfairly, awfully, horribly, murderously?”

 

Of course, the US has been mean spirited and evil to some of its citizens and slaves and aliens.  BUT we are trying to get better, be better, be fairer, and even more so a land of opportunity for all residents  and an inspiration for all peoples of all lands.

 

Is it a question of the locals trying to raise everyone’s quality of life or is it a question of a few locals trying to get more for themselves at the expense of the other citizines and inhjabitants?

 

JFK said “A rising tide raises all ships.”  Isn’t that true of any country’s  sea of people.  Help everyone and you help yourself.

Sharing a meal after sharing the horses

We are trying to teach one another how to ride. We threw in a little lunch for afterwards.

Thank you USA for helping broker a “Ceace Fire” in GAZA

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Need You if it is going to happen

You never know when your support and encouragement will be just enough to make the effort succeed, get over the top.  There are a thousand reasons for saying “yes.”  Only one for saying “No. What I care about is more important than peace.”

 

Your help may be that extra energy or effort or component or idea that will make the difference.

 

Tell it to a marine, a wounded marine, a dead marine.  Tell him or her why you can’t help.  Rather tell him or her you are going to help because of what he or she has gone through for you.

 

Horses on the same page

Each animal in this picture has a place in the herd. They each contribute something..

sET bACK TO THE pEACE hoRSE PROCESS

Because I didn’t have the support of my family to start this, and because I don’t have the blessing of my niece to include her pictures or identity in this blog, I will be modifying the past blogs.

 

Because this website/blog/business summer school has so  many components, I will take on a smaller project first full time and allow PeaceHOrse to evolve more with YOUR HELP.

 

I would love to have individuals who have great or fun or compassionate or representative photos of horses and riders and/or peace makers or peace making contact me and send me their images with notes about what is going on in them.

 

Peace is going to come about because we study it and make it happen.  It is going to be a many of us project.  Each can throw in what we can that will be useful.  Photos, content, ideas, suggestions, skills, eventually participating directly in the school or recruiting participants or volunteers or sponsors or advertisers from around the world.

Not everybody is on the same page in the pasture

Whitey disagrees; he has the right to express his opinion and preferences.

Making Peace in Gaza with the Israelis and the Palestinians

Joy's Furry Coat with the sunlight reddening it

If this beautiful body were in the way of the war makers in Gaza, it would be blown to hell.

Is it hopeless? NO!

Somehow, eventually, peace will come to the Holy Lands.  It might as well come now and not wait for tens and hundreds and thousands and 100,000′s of people on both side to be  terrorized, injured, maimed, and killed.  Would you want to live in either of those countries under the conditions that they have versus what we have here in the United States?

Let’s assume that all is needed is a better policy by the United States.

However, we are not omnipotent.  (t is possible that the two sides are mad, crazy, fools, imbeciles, so demented by their past that they cannot give up their normal abnormal behavior.  They have gotten into a pattern of attach and revenge and attack.

Is change possible?  Of course!

Not only do we need to have a great policy to help bring about a change in the way the “combatants” combat one another, but we need to help change their mindsets.

How can we do that?  How can we take two or more adversaries who seem to have developed ruts in their brains that cannot think of anything except murder and revenge?  Is it that bad.  No!

 

We need to try having adversaries ride together here, work together here, share here, forgive here.  Plan a common vision that is great for both.

There needs to be a way for the people of both sides, especially the more militant beliigerent ones, to try something else.  As Doctor Phil says, “How is that working for you?”

As a painfully honest PeaceHorse could say “How is that working for you , Israel?  How is that working for you, Palestine?  Gaziana?  Hamas?

We could encourage the “people” to demand peace.  Demonstrate for peace. Instead of celebrating the mangling of thirteen unlucky bus riders, couldn’t all the people demand that their leaders “STOP IT NOW!”

It isn’t one thing that will work.  It is many things done simultaneously over a length of time that will eventually bring about a cessation of hostilities and a lasting peace.

Let’s get started now so that fewer people and their lives will be destroyed.

Tune into PeaceHorse to find out what we, you and I and our friends and enemies, are going to do to  STOP IT and replace it with peace and justice.

 

It doesn’t have to be only through horsemanship that we can build bridges between enemies.  We can do it in any area which two people share as a common passion and love and interest.  But we are going to try it first with horsemanship.

 

“People get ready, there’s a new train acomin’.  Don’t need no ticket.  You just get on ‘board.”

Let’s learn to ride together and make peace together.

 

Program to Encourage others to blog about their dreams and turn their dreams into reality

Babies deserve a chance to have a real life

How many people could be involved in raising and training and riding and sharing and taking care of this wonderful beautiful cute foal? We all could be. We all could be responsible for what is happening around the world to “the least of these.”

In Outward Bound there is the analogy: If there is something you know is impossible for you to do, and yet you do it, it opens up the whole world to you.  What you once thought was impossible, has become the possible.  Everything that you thought was impossible, is now suspect.  Is it possible?  Could I survive a ship wreck in very cold water?  Could I create a school of international riding where horsemanship and joy and peace will flourish and expand and take seed around the Earth?   Could you be encouraged to go for it?  Have your dream become a reality!

If you could start a blog about your dream, vision, goal, hope and you received help from us in making it possible, IT COULD BECOME REALITY.   PeaceHorse wants you to dream big.  We will try to show you how we have turned our dream into REALITY.  We will work with you to show you how you can turn your dream into reality, too.

 

We will offer you our OUTLINE on this website.  You will create your own outline.  We will offer you our PROCESS.  You will create your own process.  We will offer you what we are doing in a LOGICAL CHRONOLOGICAL FASHION.  You will tell us what you are doing in a logical chronological fashion.  Our success will be a pattern that you can emulate  so that you can have success, too.

www.tigersoft.com stands for Peace, too

The vegetables of their labor

Which fruits of your labor would you like to harvest? Hatred or cabbage.

As a Quaker,  I applaud you for rearing up for the cause of peace.   Finding a way to turn swords into plow-shares for your horses is what the Roman General Cincinnatus stood for after the Republic was safe.

Lana Schmidt – Prospective new “Blog Mistress”

Lana will give us a hand.

Hands are good for many things. When we use our hands to help another, we are God’s hands.

Dearest Lana,  I am so excited to offer you the position as “blog mistress.”  You are so creative, so energetic, so enthusiastic, and SO DEVOTED to making the world a better place. This is your opportunity to not only create and publish blog pages, images, content, but to create a foundation that will be working for peace between horses and their riders and peace between riders and their fellow-man and womankind.  Please accept this offer.   Jump in the saddle or sit deep in your computer chair.   We have a lot of ground and good to cover today and tomorrow.    Blessed be the peace maker.   “Mount ‘em up! Move ‘em out! Let’s get riding!”