Hello there! Happy Tuesday! I just listed this crochet suspender skirt pattern into the shoppe today, made with detachable straps of your personal choice!
Well, lets say you have two friends who wants you to come play football:
The first you know usually brings sweets and sodas, they encourage you and praise you, and let you take a break when you need to.
The second one never brings anything. They shout, call you a wuss, force you to play until they’re satisfied you did better then last time, then they leave without saying thank you.
You know which one you’d go with right? In fact you might even choose to go with the first friend even if you disliked football because you know it will pay off?
I heard this mindset a lot while i did the year of school in natural horse training and management. My trainer had this very opinion, if your horse knew you had treats, you cheated and any training you did didn’t count.
I think i slightly changed her mind over that year because while she had to help the other students catch their horses from the field because they would run off at the sight of halters. She had to help me get my horse back into the paddock because she refused to go back there. And she still does, she wants to train.
Horses exist to eat, it’s the main thing that makes them happy, food and friends. When you can be both, do you really think they leave the friendship and just take the treats? And what if they did, would that really matter? If they associate you with something positive, is that still not better than they disliking your company? They sure as hell wont have a great relationship with you if you force and beat them. The main thing that should matter is that they are ethically trained and housed, the friendship thing is more of a human need.
I also had a trainer who straight up said that since she houses and pays for them, they have to do what she wants. Do they? Why should they? She chose to buy them, she chose to feed them, they never had a say in that. They didnt get to choose who bought them. It’s just such a flawed human way of thinking of animals, that they somehow have to work for a life they didnt choose themselves. Pure greed. So why not give them something back? pay them for going along with our silly human concepts. I really dont see the issue.
Sorry. this is long, i have a lot of feelings about this :’)
Didnt feel like training today so i took some tools and walked up the mountainside behind the barn. Collected a whole bunch of spruce branches for the horses and just sat for a while. It’s so nice and quiet up there.
Happy PFAD! I’m Nica Aquino; first generation Filipina (Ilokano)-American, analog photographer & multidisciplinary artist currently based in Manchester, United Kingdom & originally from Los Angeles, CA. I am pursuing my MFA in Visual Culture at the School of Art in Manchester Metropolitan University.
👆🏽Today, I celebrate the 12th of June with the completion of one of my pieces I made as part of a larger series of works for my dissertation, due this coming September! It is a Cordillera (Northern Philippines) inspired crochet blanket/skirt made from wool yarn, acrylic yarn, glass beads & mother of pearl.
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Eve Ewing in conversation at The Strand on Monday evening. Later online, a fellow fan said she was “electric” and I can’t think of a better way to describe her! She is every superlative: the smartest, the most charming, the funniest, the most versatile. Plus I was there with my friend Elise, who *just* finished her dissertation for a PhD in education policy, which made the night even more exciting.
Here’s my favorite Eve advice from the event, in response to a work-life balance question: Say no so you can say yes. For example, NO I can’t make time to record an episode of your podcast, so that YES I now have time to play video games and talk to my husband. Self-care, baby!
Spitfire Alice A Gra 
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