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.
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.
