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Posted on January 18, 2010 - Filed Under kiddo life

Look how confident she is! At five, she can ride western, do the posting thing (that’s when the horse trots and you lift your butt out of the saddle on every other beat), ride without stirrups, and can post without even holding the reins, holding her arms out like a circus performer. Amazing! Sophie just knocks my socks off. She only goes riding for 30 min a week—I’m sure she would love to do more but it’s expensive. I just love this picture though, she looks so pleased and happy. There is so much life in her little body!

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• MAYA LASSITER is a novelist, a mother, a keeper of goats and bees, a yurt dweller, and an all around cool person. Except when she is a boring ninny. Hopefully she won't post on those days. _______________________________ . . . . . . . . IN PRINT . . . . . . . . "Dusi's Wings" April, 2003 "One thing fantasy can do for us is to give shape to the mysterious in the world; another is to make emotional yearning concrete. The early sections of "Dusi's Wings" do just that...there was a strong grasping towards the spiritual in fantasy here that was very promising, and I look forward to reading more by Lassiter." --review, Tangent Online. _______________________________
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