Grazing peacefully on the grassland of the farm called Windy Coulee near Pincher Creek, approximately two hours due south of Calgary, Alberta, you will find the Canadian horses of Heidi Eijgel and her husband, David Glass. Here, not far from the majesty of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, the landscape in places seems to touch the sky. Cloud and grassland are close enough to greet one another. Yet, despite the vastness of white cloud above gentle prairie in the top photo, perhaps the best place to see this place, and the national horse of Canada which roams it, is in Heidi’s eyes. There, you witness her profound belief in this meeting of grassland, sky and the Canadian horse....
Kathy Russell is Red Scarf Equestrian’s partner for Interior Design. In today’s blog, she gives us some tips and other pieces of advice to improve your home decor for 2019. It is the room where family and friends gather. It is where good books are read and favourite movies watched. The heart of the home is in many ways the living or family room. Hence, for so many reasons, it is important to decorate to create an inviting, welcoming and comforting space. Indeed, decorating is in good part about the comfort we derive from a room and the feeling it gives us when we are present there. Decorating is in good part about the comfort we derive from a room...
Having entered into a cool and rainy Spring after a particularly difficult Winter, it would seem a good time to take a moment to reflect upon our relationship to our northern locale and the realities that attend it. In today’s installment we do so by reflecting upon the fine artwork of Canadian artist Claude Langevin. Sometimes the best time to revisit a challenge is immediately after having conquered it. It has been said, too, that if we have a challenge, it is wiser to move towards it, rather than away from it. In the North, we talk about hockey even in the Summer. The idea of the North in the Canadian imagination is as large as the expanses that stretch...
The important thing about Christopher Robin’s stuffed-animal companion Tigger, in the beloved The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne, was that, however bouncy, big and overbearing Tigger might seem to be, he was, like everyone else, in search of kindness. Small acts, large acts, medium acts of kindness all matter to everyone, big or small, or in-between. It has been said by family therapist Virginia Satir that we need four hugs each day just to survive, eight to maintain the status quo and twelve to thrive (https://psychology-spot.com/brain-needs/). A small act of kindness, big or small is, in a way, just like a hug, isn’t it? In this installment RSE reflects upon the meaning and importance of kindness. We thought...
It’s about matching riders to horses, but also horses to riders. Nadia and Liv, the current owners of eight-year old, bay, thoroughbred, Joey, are reluctantly going to sell him...
