Center For Horses And Healing

10/30/2024

David’s follow up to his beloved first collection of essays, Consolations II contains 52 new essays exploring words such as DEATH, REVERIE, SHAME and UNORDINARY.

10/07/2024

10/07/2024

10/07/2024

Imported organic products face issues of fraud and regulatory loopholes, and local, direct-from-farmer organics are generally more reliable than large-scale commercial organics sold in supermarkets.

09/12/2024

Friday, September 6, 2024

It’s Strange How Deserts Turn Us into Believers

I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages,
because you learn humility.

I believe in living in a land of little water
because life is drawn together.

And I believe in the gathering of bones
as a testament to spirits that have moved on.

If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place
that allows us to remember the sacred.

Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert
is a pilgrimage to the self.

There is no place to hide and so we are found.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Gultch [Photo]. Adobe Stock

09/12/2024

Couple of seats left for this retreat with Horse Medicine and Wisdom. Text to register or for more information

09/10/2024

Revised edition of CONSOLATIONS, with new essay, "Close" and an introduction by Maria Popova. Includes the popular essays, Friendship, Gratitude, and Regret.

08/31/2024

MUKTINATH

Dawn at Muktinath
and I look through the window,
white mountains and the steady
slopes of snow,
cold scent of pine and the raven-call
of black birds
circling upward – toward nothing.

So the breath escapes the mouth,
spiraling in a cold room,
so the words leave our lips,
the first line of a long poem
with no courage to finish.

This is the place the path begins,
the empty room beneath the breath
where everything we’ve broken
comes back to be repaired,
where bitterness returns, opens,
turns to a final sourness
on the lime washed walls
and disappears.

This is the place we start again,
Place sunburnt knuckles in moist eyes
And bow the head,
Feel the rough cold wall
On the forehead and weep.

This is the place we stop,
look up, lean out the window
and find the first signs of life.

Beneath us
a child is crying,
while above,
a tight arrow of driven ponies
points the way to the high pass.
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‘Muktinath’
River Flow: New and Selected Poems
Many Rivers Press © David Whyte
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The Path Begins
Photo © David Whyte
Jenny Lake. Wyoming
August 25th 2024

08/19/2024

We have one seat left for the right person ready for positive life change and already doing inner work. Text 970-631-2379 for details and questions.

07/28/2024

A rare breed once on the brink of extinction is making a comeback on their ancestral lands.

07/22/2024

Join the Horses and I for a transformational retreat!

07/01/2024

How Surely Gravity's Law

by Rainer Maria Rilke

Friday, June 28, 2024

How surely gravity’s law,
strong as an ocean current,
takes hold of the smallest thing
and pulls it toward the heart of the world.

​Each thing —
each stone, blossom, child —
is held in place.
Only we, in our arrogance,
push out beyond what we each belong to
for some empty freedom.

​If we surrendered
to earth’s intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Instead we entangle ourselves
in knots of our own making
and struggle, lonely and confused.

So like children, we begin again
to learn from the things,
because they are in God’s heart;
they have never left him.

This is what the things can teach us:
to fall,
patiently to trust our heaviness.
Even a bird has to do that
before he can fly.

What Grows Above Starts Underground [Collage]. Doug Van Houten

06/18/2024

3d stained glass horse on display

06/09/2024

The average American farmer doesn't fix fences and drive tractors. Thanks to market concentration, there is now a handful of companies that dominate the US food system, and they are impacting Australia too.

07/12/2023

Biofuels, long considered the holy grail of carbon neutrality, actually require more CO2 to produce than the carbon emissions from gasoline they claim to offset, studies show.