Today I finished reading Daughter by Mark Stewart-Jones
A beautiful heart felt book, I hate to finish this book but I am so thankful that they shared their story.
It carries a noble message of love and possibilities.
Go grad a copy for your book club or just for yourself.
Go grad a copy for your book club or just for yourself.
Another wonderful Occupational Therapy session with Crystal. Sadly these to shall come to an end after April, when Crystal shall move off Island. She has been a blessing and we are happy for her but are starting to feel sad about her departure.
I wanted to share a good book for horse therapy;
-The Horse, The Handicapped, and The Riding Team In A Therapeutic Riding Program.
A Training Manual for Volunteers.
By; Barbara Teichmann Engel, Margaret Lois Galloway & Mary P. Bull.
There are grate organizations like;
-NARHA The North American Riding for the Handicapped association
-HHFTH happy Horsemanship for the Handicapped
-American Hippo-therapy Association
-Therapeutic Equestrians inc. of California
There are a lot of courses and handbooks out there for horse therapy.
I would like to encourage horse people who have barns and horses, to consider opening their barns to help facilitate those with disabilities. A lot of seasoned retired horses who have been working horses are perfect for therapy horses in the last seasons of their lives. It gives the horses great purpose and keeps them fit, active and loved. We are so grateful to Kandi for her willingness to let Jewel ride Cookie Dough aka Billy. He is a retired rodeo horse, and had always been a working cowboy's horse. He is even tempered, very patient, and bomb proof (does not scare or startle easily). We did sign a liability release form and we are very careful, consciences when we go out to the horses. We try to help as much as we can. We are not horse people and we have learnt a lot, thank you Kandi!
Sophie from the book Daughter wants to send Jewel a piece of her Art, and I told Jewel this. Her response was, "tank you (thank you)". Her response to life is always grateful and short winded. Like when she says, "water, eese (please) and tank you". During her O/T session she said, "go away", and later on in the session, " No tank you". The work was hard and physically demanding, yet she did it and it was amazing to witness. The abled educated hands of the O/T always amazes me!
Grace has to go out, the girls are back from volunteering and for some reason I feel like crying.
Life is great, life is full of hope, warmth, memories, laughter and mystery.
I hope you have the encouragement, support, love and knowledge that you need, if not I encourage you to go find what you need.
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