“Horsemanship and life, it’s all the same to me” ~ Buck Brannaman
The novice horseman and the novice writer will
- learn skills, learn approaches, learn theory, and then forget about them and just do it
- watch and emulate the best and then be shut in a room to develop her own way
- bang her head on walls and then discover they are mirrors
- look at the mountain, look at the teaspoon in her hand, and then begin
- run as fast as she can and wind up back at the damn mirror
- find it inside or not find it at all
- wish the whole freaking thing would leave her alone
- understand that this is now her life, other plans be damned
- wonder why it took so long to get started
On Elk Meadow Road 