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This, I swear, is my last spate of work avoidance before I leap screaming into the bunker and emerge sometime around Christmas with a novel in my teeth.
The best part about the whole Lipizzan Convergence thing, really, was coming home to my own Fat White Ponies, and having a lesson day right away. Our lessons are very much in the tradition--when I watch the riders teach, it's just like home.
It was a very low-key lesson day. ( Read more... )
So, a very good lesson, with lots to think about, and some personal progress.
Meanwhile the quibblers are emerging after Columbus performances. Not that there weren't things to quibble--but as with everything else, there are always people who have to make themselves feel good by playing Expert Critic. I was particularly less-than-impressed by the person who came on one of the riders' own mailing list and demanded to know why some horses in the performance he saw were "behind the vertical." ( Read more... )
Personally I had the same reaction I did in 1980: I Want This. Didn't need I Want One, I've got seven (eight if you count Gaudia, who belongs to Teacher). ;>
My next project is to figure out how to get Pook (and Teacher, probably with keed) to a clinic with one of these riders in the next year to year and a half. It's getting toward time for that, oh yes.
The best part about the whole Lipizzan Convergence thing, really, was coming home to my own Fat White Ponies, and having a lesson day right away. Our lessons are very much in the tradition--when I watch the riders teach, it's just like home.
It was a very low-key lesson day. ( Read more... )
So, a very good lesson, with lots to think about, and some personal progress.
Meanwhile the quibblers are emerging after Columbus performances. Not that there weren't things to quibble--but as with everything else, there are always people who have to make themselves feel good by playing Expert Critic. I was particularly less-than-impressed by the person who came on one of the riders' own mailing list and demanded to know why some horses in the performance he saw were "behind the vertical." ( Read more... )
Personally I had the same reaction I did in 1980: I Want This. Didn't need I Want One, I've got seven (eight if you count Gaudia, who belongs to Teacher). ;>
My next project is to figure out how to get Pook (and Teacher, probably with keed) to a clinic with one of these riders in the next year to year and a half. It's getting toward time for that, oh yes.
