When the Bough Breaks

When the Bough Breaks (The Devil You Didn't See Coming)

The sound of a tree limb breaking high overhead has always made me run. This episode is about what happens when you can’t -- or when the things that you prepare for, obsesses over, and worry about endlessly aren't the problems that actually occur.

It's the other stuff, the in-between stuff, that gets us.

This week, I'm telling a story of storms, trees, horses, and the shifting illusion of control. You’ll hear about the wedding we moved at the last minute, the inland hurricane that reshaped the farm, and the day I stood haltering Moose as a bough, finally, fell.

And our last horse show where a storm brought a jogger to danger as we huddled under the barn eaves for safety.

The old rules don’t hold anymore.

Because as the world falls apart, the horses still drink deep from the well and the land shifts and changes along with the sky.

And yet -- we keep going.

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