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PART II: Self-Psychology and the Human-Equine Bond
My heart is taken by you and these mornings since I am a horse running towards a cracked sky where there are countless dawns breaking...
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Mar 31, 20238 min read


PART I. Self-Psychology and the Human-Animal Bond
What of the horse of the soul against whose neck a young boy can cry his loneliness and speak his secret wishes, the horse a young girl...
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Mar 19, 20235 min read


There Is a Crack In Everything: Euthanasia and the Human-Animal Bond
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in…...
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Jan 29, 202311 min read


The Bonesetter
The Japanese tale The Bonesetter is another fairytale that recently caught my attention. I discovered it in Allan Chinen's Once Upon a...
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Jan 28, 20234 min read


The Seal's Skin
Image: Dream 9/17/22 Seal Skin On Saturday, I participated in the first of three online classes on oral story-telling, taught by Ben...
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Jan 24, 20234 min read


A Parade of Dream Animals: I Remember.
12/15/22. I began remembering and recording my dreams in 2008. Dream animals visited occasionally at he beginning, but when I left...
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Dec 18, 20223 min read


The Alien Within
Based on a friend's recommendation, I checked out Stephenson Bond's (1993) book, Living Myth: Personal Meaning as a Way of Life, from the...
snowrivers
Dec 3, 20223 min read


Musings on Veterinary Surgery, Menopause, and Female Friendship
I recently finished reading mythologist and depth psychologist Christine Downing’s 1991 book Journey through Menopause: A Personal Rite...
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Nov 24, 20225 min read


Deepening Grooves: Saying Goodbye to an Old Dog
In that moment before waking, when a dream might still be floating if I could just catch it, remember to remember, it comes to me. The...
snowrivers
Nov 7, 202211 min read
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