Horses

Do You Hear Them? — When I grow near I hear the faintest whisper As the snorts and whinnies heard from a distance quiet Until I’m near enough to hear their secrets They think I can’t hear them as they talk about me “Look,” they say. “She’s here bringing tranquility again.” “Wonder who she will ride today.” “She’s…

Where Everyone Knows Who You Are — Not quite famous Yet well known I made my way into the familiar crowd Of faces I knew and some I did not Greeted and introduced At the bucolic horse farm The horses whispered There she is Where I had not realized I was an almost celebrity © Victoria Ponte…

She found where a local boy had died but the police couldn’t. — This is a well-documented story about a psychic horse that lived in Richmond/Durham, Virginia, and was born in 1925. She was a new baby at two weeks when Claudia received her from her husband as a gift. She bottle-fed the baby which caused an incredible bond between them. At an…

Let’s tie in a word from last year — I try to avoid doing “blasts from the past” too often. The whole point of this daily column is to write about a new word every day. But, to paraphrase John Lennon and Reader’s Digest, sometimes life happens while you’re trying to write an article on Medium. So, despite me…

Horse Fever “Yet when books have been read, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.” -Walter Farley. Horse fever swept through me like a tidal wave when I was young. …

A Story of Faith, Family, and Hope This is one of the stories for my new book, Women, and Horses When Our Souls Take Flight. This book is a memoir of living on a working ranch in Baja, Mexico. It’s about women and horses, family, love, and inspiration. If any…