![]() I could feel his energy with me, almost always. ![]() In my vision some forces were pushing me around from square to square and I was content to let them. I saw myself on a big chess board, and I was sitting on a square. I sat in awe at how I was oddly at peace with just sitting. In fear of not finding a way to move forward. In hysterical laughter at how much money I had spent fighting to save him. At 11:17 am, he moved on from his body.Īnd then for much of 2018, I sat. He was my dancing partner, and in hindsight, I think my spirit guide.īut despite my fairytale vision, we were losing. But in my world, Intrepid was that important. After all, this is a horse, not a person. If you’re not an animal person, I know it’s hard to wrap your brain around my story. I could see the fairytale ending, when he came back from the brink of death and we were back in the arena, applause from the crowd because we had won something so much bigger than a ribbon. The Intrepid-Shelley story wasn’t over yet. In the name of limiting this post to something less than a million words, just know I put everything I had into saving my friend. Basically, he got a liver infection, resulting in a bad liver disease. In 2017 he got sick and was diagnosed with cholangiohepatitis. I spent hours and hours with this horse every week, training and plotting and planning and loving. In my world, husband and horse are about on the same playing field. We’d been together since 2008 and he was my competitive partner. I had a horse named Intrepid, who was a magnificent Oldenburg gelding. I just have to finish the epilogue, and then I’ll tell you all about this amazing horse, how Intrepid Wellness got started, what that has to do with finding my fit, energy fields and spirit guides and bringing the fire. It’s not quite done and will be epic long because it’s more about me finding peace than anything else. I’m almost ready to share my story of Intrepid in my blog. There were tough decisions, grief, discovery, melancholy, digging deep, energy, light, darkness, anger, rediscovery, gratitude, acceptance, peace, standing up, moving forward, saying goodbye and saying hello. I think my brain was just on overload.Ģ018 had started out rough and was proved itself to be a year of light and dark. I found myself thinking about all the things that I could mess up when I jumped my horse, instead of how to be successful. I had the gremlin in a box, but it got magnified again last summer. This started several years ago after I took a bad fall, and a version of it has stayed with me. One day I’ll blog about all this, but for lots of reasons I had found myself in a space of “disaster thinking” during riding lessons and competition. I’ve been working really hard on being a confident, forward thinking, problem solving person when I ride my horse. I want to work the riding arena like Rich Embry works the stage. He looked like he owned the stage and was having fun. Ha! I think the last time I was this obsessed with anyone was with Tom Cruise in his Top Gun days! That dates me a bit.Īs I watched Alter Ego, I was mesmerized by the lead singer’s confidence, skill, laughter, and chameleon quality to mimic different singers. Maybe Rich would sign the sleeve if I profess my undying devotion. I regret not having bought one, so now I’m plotting how to get back to Las Vegas to pick one up. iPhones aren’t really made to capture this stuff. Most of the videos I’ve found online don’t do the band justice. ![]() I don’t think they have an album, but if they did. Not only did they play great music, but I felt like they studied the music. It was so much fun, watching that band and listening to how they changed themselves to match the cover song they were playing. I danced to great renditions of Rebel Yell, Highway to Hell, Pink Houses, Footloose, Crazy Train and more. They are a cover band and did an incredible job playing some great songs. I can’t quite tell you what drew me to this band. I think that means the city has hired them to play there often. It was at one of these stages that Jim and I came across a band called Alter Ego, a “resident” band at Fremont Street. There’s a zip line! And circles painted on the sidewalk where performers of various “talents” can rent them and strut their stuff. This street has this amazing roof thing that plays music, videos, and has all sorts of strobe lights. The Fremont Street experience is the wild, bizarre, free Vegas that is exactly what you envision about Las Vegas.
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