Do you
believe in serendipity?
I don't know
if I do or not, but this happened to me today!
Back in the day
when I was just starting out doing my pencil drawings of horses,
trying to get my life as an artist started, I obviously couldn't
afford a horse of my own. But I really wanted one! One of my favourite
forms of entertainment was getting the "horse trader"
mags, the ones with all the photo ads and whatnot. I would gather
every one I could from all the feed stores in the rural area I
used to live in, and I would pour over them, reading through them
again and again. And then when a month would pass and it was time
for new ones to come out I would pick all my favourite pictures
and cut them out. I still have numerous collages in journals and
sketchbooks that I made with these pix, and I still have a ton
in a collapsible file folder. When I moved back to da city in
late 2000, I couldn't find the horse mags anymore.
The fild folder
eventually got changed into a beading graph receptacle. I took
the old pix and articles out and put them all in one back section
of the file folder so I could put my beading graphs in the other
pockets, and I haven't looked at those old pix in about 3 or 4
years.
Then today (Dec.
14th, 2004) I was thinking about one of the articles I had cut
out, about a study that they did around the time of the Atlanta
Olympics, about the best way to warm up a horse so that they don't
overheat while working. So I went into the old folder and found
the article, read it. And then for the heck of it I went through
the pile of old pix. Many were from stallion ads (they get all
pumped up from the testosterone and tend to have great cresty
necks and nice physiques overall, making them great for art) but
not all. Basically any picture of a horse I thought was pretty,
or who was in a great dramatic pose, I saved. But mostly, I saved
back pictures of "Horses I wish were mine".
So I went though
all these photos, thinking how pretty all the horses were that
I liked. And I came to this one picture. It's just a tiny 1.5"
for-sale ad, but the second I saw it I had this moment
of total astonishment, and I thought
OH MY GOD!
THAT'S SUGAR
PIE! THAT'S MY HORSE!!
Maybe there aren't
any coincidences!!
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