Community

This weekend was spend with the Athena Herd Foundation trainers for two days gaining more skills, building community, and having many discussions. What has been wonderful is getting to meet in person the people I have been working with virtually for a while now because they are all amazing people whom I'm very glad to get to know and work with. And they are hilarious in the very best of ways. W. and I have often discussed the importance of having a good sense of humor and the Athena trainers definitely pass the humor test. I can't quite remember the last time I have laughed so hard so often. It is a good program that is able to gather together a group of trainers who are such caring and intelligent (and funny) people. The world, both horse and otherwise, is a better place because of them and I am honored to be included. 

And I can now say I've played cricket because of a very brief attempt last night at organizing a game which lasted all of five minutes due to it getting too dark to see the ball. I pretty much stood in the field (outfield?) which is not unlike my grade school experiences of playing softball. However, I could get no one to adequately describe to me how the game works. There's a bat, a ball, running... it's all very mysterious.