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Protecting Children in Newtown CT and Everywhere in the World

Sunny laid open to determine the cause of her colic

Sunny died at 20 years old. She had colic. She said goodbye to be at 1:37 in the morning with a nudge of her nose. She took three steps away from me and collapsed in death. The vet and I autopsied her to find out why. You and I will autopsy America to find out why?

It is more than a tragedy to have those sweet innocent children in Newtown CT murdered. It is a tragedy to have children anywhere in the world murdered. Murdered by guns, swords, bombs, land mines. Murdered by hunger or thirst or disease or injuries. Their souls murdered by oppression and racism and discrimination and poverty and lack of education and lack of freedom or opportunity. Anything that you and I would not want for our children, that we think would be brutal or unfair or unjust or cruel, we need to consider a tragedy of the same proportion as the slaying of innocent lambs in Connecticut.

America may be able to make huge steps forward in how it treats mentally ill youth that are prone to violence because of the tragedy at Newtown CT

America may be able to figure out a way to treat mentally ill adults who are prone to acts of violence.

Parts of our culture do a great deal of this damage. 95% of what we do every day we do without thinking about. It is what we do because of the culture we are raised in and live in.

Guns and violence. Is there any doubt that the unspeakable horrible violence and EVIL visited upon the children in the classrooms at
Sandy Hook elementary school was a reflection of what our entertainment industry provides us? Don’t we permit and watch that distorting and perverting entertainment in our homes through TV or the internet? In how many other ways does that “evil” culture infiltrate into our nation’s desired values and norms. Are we the enablers?
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If we don't help a mentally troubled or mentally ill person, we or our society may have to pay a bigger price. In Newtown, it was a cost too huge, too unrepayable. What price would it have been worth to have prevented it?

We need to be our brothers and sisters' keepers. We need to make sure that all of our children here in the United States are safe.

What about the innocent little children overseas? Do their parents not feel the same anguish, horror, soul destruction, when their innocent children are slaughtered in a 100 different ways.

There are things we can do here and abroad. Let's learn them and then do them, for God's sake.

Obama quoted Jesus, "Suffer the little children to come unto me." The children are important to Jesus and to us. We must take care of them so that they have a good air healthful start.

Making peace includes creating just societies where everyone has a fair chance to develop himself or herself, to reach his or her own potential, to follow his or her dreams and passions to create good and life and joy.

We have been asleep at the switch. We have followed too long and too much the desires of our own hearts. Can't we get together to do good together. Our children make our civilization. Let's work on making our children safe. Make as many of the children as possible mentally healthy and work to improve the mental health of all those who became damaged either through DNA, their genetics, or through their environment, traumatic events in their lives.

If we make our own society more peaceful, won't we help to eliminate insane violence like Newtown? If we help to make other societies satisfy the needs of their people better, won't they be more 0ezeful, and less likely to strive for a war for whatever reason?

Learn to make peace through creating a just society here and helping our neighbors overseas create just societies for themselves. Peace consider joining PeaceHorse. Please consider starting your own PeaceWorld around you r interests and passions.

Children ice skating

A little oil pastel portraying children skating at the recreational rink in Helena. Montana. Far. They are far away from the troubles of the nation and the world, usually. The cancer of violence spreads and begins to infect all of us.

Peace and Horseback Riding are both complicated and simple

Whitey and Joy wait by the barn. They have their creek for water, their field for grass, and a bucket of oats or so every day. They have me to look out for them. And I do.

Life is complicated. The principles are simple. Love one another. Keep your heels down.

I am excited about being able to do this blog and website. I do not believe that you need to think that riding is easy or that making peace is easy. If it were so simple everyone would be a great riders.If it were so easy, we wouldn’t have new wars starting every week in the newspaper or old wars continuing.

I do not intend to try to teach you how to be a great rider over the internet, through this blog/website. In this website/blog you will see what can be done at PeaceHorse about your riding and why it might work better or differently than anything else you have ever tried.

If you are not great yet, but you have been trying to be a great rider and it isn’t happening yet, this might be the answer to breaking that barrier or getting that insight you need.

However, I don’t expect you to come to PeaceHorse to be great. I expect you to come here because you want to be better in may ways. You want to honor your passion for horses, you want to share that passion with others who feel the same way that you do, and you want to do something worthwhile with that passion beyond just trotting around with your horse and your horsey friends.

You need to do something with your life that is meaningful. Every human being who is adequately aware searches to give his or her life meaning. I believe we find meaning by loving. Victor Frankel in his book Man’s Search for Meaning stated that at the heart of his discovery while enduring hell in a concentration camp. The world needs you caring about others and doing something with that caring. AND you need the world so that you can love and care about others in it.

We are going to have you meet new people, people from different cultures than yours. You will care about them. You will like them. You will want their lives to work better also. You will want to try to help the people in their countries. Help them have peace and justice and equality and a fair opportunity.

But beside wanting to have new and different friends for you to learn from and help in social community ways, I would like you to care about the suffering of others. There is war. We need to try to prevent it and end it. There is also the suffering caused by hunger, and famine, and drought, and flood, and natural disasters, and injustice, and too few resources .or too few resources being shared.

We will talk about that here, too. We can put a lot about that up on the pages here.

Don’t expect this site to be simple. The problems are complicated and the dreams are big. It will take a lifetime just to understand some of it.But it is the most important thing you will ever do, to try to bring about a better world. You will get to do it through your passion for horses!

You are expected to come here loaded for bear. We are not going to do all the work for you. You have to come with ideas and knowledge and skills that you have tried to develop.

The more you bring with you, the more we can create together.

We will create together what we need to create to make this world more peaceful.

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?

End of one season, begining of the next here in Montana

Snow coming to Glacier

Every year fall is followed by the snows in Glacier. If we have been mindful, we have new friends and better old friends to show for the year. We will have new friends to look forward to, not old enemies to fear.

Friendships begin with a ride together.

The summer is over. Indian summer has been replaced by a series of hard freezes that let us know that snow will be here for Halloween. The horses know to start building their coats. We will take a break from riding, but the last couple of days have had golden afternoons The plan for the future commences. How can we ride better and make a difference? Is riding enough or should there be something more in riding? Peace with ourselves, our horses, our friends, our enemies? It is easy to love your friend.  Can you love your enemy?  We are going to try. We are going to beat swords into plowshares and have our enemies become our friends, colleagues, supporters, sharers, teachers and benefactors.