Paksworld

I have, or had, lots of pictures of horses, including with me on them (and most of them I didn’t own.   Here are just three of Ky, in age ranging from 18 to 20 or 21 (not sure now).    He was bought off a ranch in New Mexico as a youngish (5 or 6 year old) horse that had a habit of jumping out of corrals, and became a show jumper in Texas before I’d ever been in a flat saddle.  We intersected in his older age (16/17) after a career-ending injury to his stifle, but he could still jump up to about 4’3″.    At that time, I was just becoming comfortable with 3′ jumps.   I leased him for about a year before buying him, and moved him to our present home when we moved here.

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Writers are fond of saying that everything is grist for the writer-mill (which suggests that writers’ minds are like big stones rotating in one place, but…any metaphor can be carried too far) or potential ingredients in the cauldron of Story (same caution applies: metaphor!)   Some things are more obviously useful right-this-minute in a story; others take a long time to find their spot in the tapestry.  But I thought you might enjoy hearing about some real-life interruptions that have (or had) obvious story potential.

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