A sensitive retelling of events that shaped a childhood, a career, and an evolving philosophy on what it means to love something--and for that love to be enough.
"Following a passionate path usually isn't easy," writes horsewoman Chelsea Canedy in this uninhibited and deeply thoughtful memoir tracing her experiences in the horse world and how they have impacted her development as a competitor, a teacher, a wife, and a mother. From a gate left open and a herd of horses galloping desperately down a busy road to a sage-burning "clearing space" in a barn; from falls, poor rides, and heart-wrenching divorce to connection, opportunity, and transformative friendships, Canedy digs deep to identify themes that not only tell her unique story but speak to the reader's own. Writing with the same natural feel she found at an early age in the saddle, Canedy coaxes us to grasp the broader truths that working with horses can so often unveil.
Reminiscences, both tender and painful, prove a catalyst for deeper exploration of what it is we are really looking for when we pursue a passion--and what it is to be human at every stage of that journey. Canedy's sensitive retelling of the events that molded her are hewn from the barn and arena, but her perceptive questions about existence, both in its most general sense and its most nuanced, offer any reader valuable lessons in true and lasting personal growth. Canedy bravely shares the painful mistakes she has made with both horses and people, the intense guilt that has accompanied these transgressions, and how learning to accept setbacks and starting over "the best way you know how" is sometimes, maybe, what gets you where you want to go.
Offering distinct lessons in how to be compassionate, curious, flexible, tenacious, open, aware, and ready to roll with the punches, Canedy's book is for every reader with a passion they feel driven to pursue, while perhaps questioning its value as the years unfold. "Knowing what it is that 'fills you up, '" writes Canedy, "in this life, that is enough."
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