Due to Covid 19 the Ride is not happening this year, so I am making up a virtual Ride from previous year's Ride's photos and comments.

Hopefully the Ride will be back on in 2021
Gloria

I am using the same poem that I used on Day 7 as it is very apt for today. I didn't think ahead did I? oh well it is good enough to have 2 days viewings! It is by Nancy Kohn Raven

Nancy Kohn Raven - 2014
The Soul of a Horse and the Soul of a Man are almost identical, they are each made from Stardust, once you are intimate with a horse, with one horse, exchanging breath, blowing each on the other, you will be connected to all horses.

In the eye of a Horse you can see many things, the beginning of the World and the red glow of its ending, and all this the horse knows and more as well.

How many of our Warriors felt the anguish of their ponies falling in the sand, its nostrils blood red, staining the Earth, So many died this way, and massacred by white mans greed, Did they die with regret you ask?? No they died with Valor and Nobility of Heart, and with acceptance of what is and was and what will ever be.

Today these same ponies walk with the riders, blowing their sacred breath into the cold of a winters day, snorting and prancing, talking in horse talk to their brothers. Telling them stories of where the grass still grows belly deep and how they run still in high chaparral, and drink long and deep from cold rivers, and what it is to be free, running in the wind.

Our latest sweat shirt fund raiser - 2020
Proceeds will go towards the 2021 Dakota 38 + 2 Memorial Ride.

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From April, aka DJ Dapper Don - 2020
I hope everybody is doing okay and feeling well. I know this is a very tough time for everybody. I put the staff back out again, and anybody that wants prayers this is for you.

Beans - 2013