Fabian Now Wants to Find Out

A few days have passed with other ideas, see http://www.otherideas.typepad.com. And, unexpectedly, my view reoccured that horses should be useful first and foremost for the transportation of men. To carry them from here to there, comfortably and pleasurably.

Not so Fabian. After many years of seemingly unsurmountable physical problems (his and mine) he now is commited to learning. He wants to be a horse of the Haute Ecole. And, to find out, he needs me to advise him accordingly. In addition he offers and desires a true, profound friendship, leaving me ashamed.

Forget about horses being animals. Once they have mastered the second gear they are marked by the marks of civilisation: manners, commitment, the desire to excel.

Will I be able to find out...

A few days later I find a weakness in this statement, a confusion, which the horses keep on clarifying. Fabian wants to work in the school: to overcome his warp, to figure out how to change from bending to the right to bending to the left, to change from trot to canter and back to the trot, to do the half-shoulder-in, to be even, to mobilize, to be comfortable, to go into the second gear. In the second gear he enjoys the outdoors...as did Leporello today.