Much of what’s wrong with the world today is rooted in the belief that we are somehow above or separated from it, that the rest of Creation is merely a backdrop for our human activities. The result is widespread destruction, disconnection, and mental disease.

We‘ve only just begun to realize that we need to shift our paradigms.

Horses are important allies to me in this endeavour, gifted with senses that we as humans have long lost or never attained. They serve as a window into a world so much richer than our merely human one, reconnecting us back to ourselves and our place in the more-than-human cosmos.

It is in Iceland, with the elements still largely untamed and the landscape stripped of all things unnecessary, where I find my perfect canvas to express these ideas:

That we need to rewild our sensory perception, as an enrichment to our purely intellectual approach of tackling today’s issues –

A deeply emotional one.