No. 262: On Safety Nets and Things

Sometimes my body releases a little shudder

when I remember all the times I've fallen off a horse.

THUD.

I can still taste the salty dirt,

remember the shock,

the automatic tears I choked back.

For a long time, I bragged and counted my falls.

This earned me my famous nickname in school:

Bucky Farmhorse.

I secretly loved it.

Yet with the wisdom of time and years,

and with the understanding of the value of true safety--

created by Self and by Other in Community,

I become more and more passionate

about living and teaching an alternative

to the "brush yourself off and get back on the horse" paradigm.

One of the things I most love about Natural Horsemanship

is it teaches us hu/wo/mans to read the language of Horse

in order--probably 99.9% of the time--to keep ourselves 

and our horses 

safe.

From the Heart School

is all about teaching this heart connection

through mutual language

so all involved

whether singer

or rider

are mutually cared for.

*Come close and I will whisper a deep Truth*

HORSE CAN CARE FOR YOU!

VOICE CAN CARE FOR YOU!

We just have to learn how to let this happen.

It IS as mysterious as It seems,

and yet also 

incredibly

simple.

Our culture teaches us to leap without the safety net of Heart Connection:

"Sign up for American Idol before you know the language of Voice! Why not just give it a try??"

"Go out in the back yard and just saddle up that horse?  It's just a horse!!"

Our most sure and steady Safety Net is the knowledge of connection or the lack thereof 

between us and the One with whom we wish to fly:

It is extreme Bliss to be at One with Voice, to be at One with Horse.

But Bliss requires an investment of wisdom--whether intuitive or learned.

Most of us have to learn it.

Hopefully we do so before we've decided

We've had one too many falls

Or one too many shame-filled performances

to get back on the horse

or back

on the stage.

At any rate, even if we have come close or gone past
This "point of no return"
Where we've experienced the loss of our dreams to sing or ride
with the abandon of an Open Heart,
we can know there is a Way Back:
through the deep Love and Honoring
of Heart in the Safety of Natural Knowledge
which

*pssst--another secret*

WE ACTUALLY HAD WHEN WE WERE BORN.

*Heart Beat*

*Heart Beat*

THIS is Life.  THIS is Love.  THIS is Opera Organically.