{"id":3181,"date":"2021-11-08T07:19:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T12:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=3181"},"modified":"2021-11-08T06:55:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T11:55:30","slug":"altered-horizons-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/altered-horizons-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Horizons 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At Barton Valley Farm in Freeville, New York, the horses were warm and welcoming. They seemed delighted about the small group of photography students jockeying around them in the muddy pasture to get the best shots. Having the smallest camera in the group, I wondered if any of the other photographers were experiencing the same problem I was as the horses kept smushing their snouts into my lens. At one point while I was clicking away to get a close-up of one horse\u2019s nose, two other horses closed in behind me sniffing and gently puffing, maybe even nibbling a bit, at my hair. In the middle of the three, it felt like I was being hugged. Great medicine for healing from loss and grief.
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At Barton Valley Farm in Freeville, New York, the horses were warm and welcoming. They seemed delighted about the small group of photography students jockeying around them in the muddy pasture to get the best shots. Having the smallest camera in the group, I wondered if any of the other photographers were experiencing the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[438,705,2289,976,2321,2322,2297,2270],"class_list":["post-3181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-h","tag-coping-with-loss","tag-dealing-with-depression","tag-fabricated-landscape","tag-grief-and-loss","tag-horse-love","tag-horse-thrapy","tag-photoshop-for-healing","tag-upended-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t