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A horse named Halo

My stomach rolled with anxiousness and excitement, like a little girl getting to pick her first pony.  Stacey lead me to the barn where half a dozen stunning rescue horses awaited their call to duty.  I wanted to work with all of the horses; each seemed to share something unique and deeply appealing.  However, it was Halo that captured me and drew me in.  Her crisp, sea-blue eyes, braided mane and black and white prints were breathtaking.  Her beauty was…

‘Should’ is a 4 Letter Word

How often do you preface your statements with, “I really should”, or “I shouldn’t”?   Well, if you are like me, it’s often enough that it has become an annoying habit.   I have been vigilantly observing my language and choice of semantics in my self-study and I realized that ‘should’ is a distasteful word that doesn’t serve me.  It lends to obligation, criticism, expectation (yours and that of others), guilt, shame and projection to future outcome.  It is a word of…