• “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
• “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.” — Vincent van Gogh
• “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” — A. A. Milne
• worlds I need to remember
  • you are not late.
  • you don't have to arrive on someone else's timeline.
  • slow progress is still a life being built.
  • the things you want are allowed to take years.
  • you can be proud of what exists while still wanting more.
  • there is no deadline for becoming the person you pictured.
  • some years are for arriving. some are for...

• "There is always hope. If you adjust what you are doing, he will adjust too; horses have an amazing capacity to make changes. - Buck Brannaman
• "God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses." - R. B. Cunningham Graham
• "Horses lend us the wings we lack." - Pam Brown
• "I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts." - Buck Brannaman

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(Challenge awards, championships, LSAP milestones)

🥀 Mourning Ink Reading List 🕯️⚰️✨🕸️

• Gothic / haunted / old-house energy
  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle — Shirley Jackson-
  • The Haunting of Hill House — Shirley Jackson (reading)
  • The Woman in Black — Susan Hill
  • Rebecca — Daphne du Maurier
  • The Hacienda — Isabel Cañas-
  • Mexican Gothic — Silvia Moreno-Garcia (on hold)
  • The Death of Mrs. Westaway — Ruth Ware-
  • The Turn of the Key — Ruth Ware-
  • The Only One Left — Riley Sager (on hold)
  • Home Before Dark — Riley Sager (on hold)
  • The Nanny — Gilly Macmillan (on loan)

• Hallowed — sacred, cherished, old
• Mourning — grief, remembrance, what remains
• Reverie — dreamy wandering thoughts
• Longing — things wanted but not yet reached
• Yearning — similar, but more aching
• Becoming — who you're slowly turning into
• Elsewhere — places you'd rather be
• Someday — the life that hasn't happened yet
• Wander — roads, travel, finding your way
• Wayward — wandering off the expected path
• Unfurling — becoming slowly
• Remnants — pieces left behind
• Keepsakes — things worth holding onto
• Relics — objects with history
• Heirlooms — things carried forward

• green rolling hills on the countryside
• old farmhouse
• horses outside any window
• big trees
• morning coffee on the porch
• a barn aisle wide enough to ride through
• summer thunderstorms
• small horse-show weekends

• goal: 55 books!
• Current: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  • Harry Potter Series
    • ✔ Book 1: Sorcerer's Stone
    • ✔ Book 2: Chamber of Secrets
    • ✔ Book 3: Prisioner of Azkaban
    • ✔ Book 4: Goblet of Fire
    • ✔ Book 5: order of the Phoenix
    • ✔ Book 6: Half Blood Prince
    • ✔ Book 7: Deathly Hallows
  • ✔ The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
  • ✔ The Hacienda — Isabel Cañas
  • ✔ What She Knew — Gilly Macmillan
  • ✔ The Divorce by Freida McFadden
  • ✔ The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
  • ✔ His & Hers by Alice Feeney
  • ✔ My Husbands Wife by Alice Feeney
  • ✔ It's Not Her by Mary Kubica

• Eye on the Title
• Legend of Zelda
• Allen All Around
• A Wicked Bond

(honor roll, ROM, versatility titles, etc. as earned)