Directional Dilemmas

I had to drive to the hospital to visit dad on Saturday, he's in with pneumonia. He is doing okay, great hospital. But, as usual, it provided the completion of this post's initial idea. I took a route to the hospital that I often take, coming home from work, only this time it was "backward". I haven't taken this route this way, in about 15 years. Much has changed, of course, as well, as most of the property was farmland.

The route looked completely different, to me, to the point of Whoah, where am I?? And then I laughed and remembered that it IS completely different. My brain hasn't seen it that way before.

Directional memory is incredibly powerful in animals, horses even more so, with their eyes on either side of their heads. They have a left side body experience, and a right side. Totally different.

HUGE tangent..
I'm still totally engrossed in Temple's new book. I'm in the pig chapter. I knew something was up with pigs. I've also been reading some interesting research about stress and genetic damage.
I swear, people, we are doing it to ourselves.

I hate feeling prescient, especially when I'm right.

Back To Directions.
Directions are very important to horses. They have two separate realities, left, and right. You have to help them overlap the two, through trust.

Oh, and my aimless blathering/wandering for the past year in horse-net land has finally given me some new directions. I hope I take them the right way.
Or is that the left?
I'll let ya know.

I need strong prayers for my dad, to any that have the time. Prayers for all who are struggling with their health. Haiti, too. How lucky we all are, to be not there.

OH, funny note. Moscow has pinged me, twice. Must have been that video of that Russian trainer at the Olympics with Christilot. Ve haff ways of mekking hyou tawk!

Sigh. What did I say now??