An amazing experience
All I can say is WOW! I have just had the most amazing experience of my life! As you will know from my last post, my partner and I decided to go to Wales to help to move the World of Whispers project to a new location. You can follow the journey of the last few days at World of Whispers. Above is a photo of me with Jack, who I was particularly drawn towards.
Our reward for spending two days packing and sorting was to be able help to move the herd to their new home on Saturday morning. It was not planned for that day but was arranged specially for us to enjoy as we had to leave that afternoon.
I have very little experience with horses; riding as a teenager and a couple of beach rides about 10 years ago is all I have done. You can imagine my anxiety when the horses arrived at the new location and we were all told to take one and walk it down the lane! There were five horses and four people. I was the only ‘non-horsey’ person in the group. Guess who got to lead two horses at once?? But I did it, and it made me feel really great. If you visit the WOW website there is a picture of me leading the two horses.
We had planned to leave Wales just after lunch but sat in the field with the horses for such a long time we didn’t hit the road til 5 o’clock! I have returned exhilerated and buzzing – it is an opportunity I am so glad that I took.
If you have made a donation you will be invited to an open day in Wales next year. I will be there and really look forward to meeting you all. Please take the opportunity to donate and come along to the open day. You will not regret it. I can vouch for that!
Donations can be made via paypal to helen@helenwingstedt.com, or look on the website for details of where to send cheques. Come and experience something amazing.
Enjoy the journey.
Hello Mandy,
Sounds like a great day (in spite of the work) and glad you enjoyed it. I must say the pics are good too. I think I’ll be in SAudi Arabia (my engineering job) next year but if not I’ll try and get there.
Best Wishes
Dave
Hi Dave,
Thanks for visiting. I do hope you can be there – it would be so good to meet with all of you who have been so supportive of the project.
Enjoy the journey.
Mandy
Hi Mandy,
What a great story – very inspiring. I headed on over to the website and made a donation to a good cause I am sure!
Thank you for sharing
Svenja
Hi Svenja,
Thanks for visiting. And thank you so much for the donation; I really hope you can get across for the open day next year! It would be brilliant! Glad you found the website and enjoyed the pics!
Enjoy the journey.
Mandy
Hi Mandy,
Your experience sounds amazing, a bit like a life changing moment that will stay with you forever. We have a project similar in australia with the brumbies in the snowy mountains. Some of the farms actually have troubled kids go an stay to work on the farms and help with the horses. It changes them to be better people. Horses are a gift to our world.
I am sure you are enjoying your journey….
Jacinta
Hi Jacinta,
Thanks for visiting. Yes, life changing is just the phrase I would use. There is a plan for a youth work placement scheme as well as offereing the ‘experience’ to children and young people. I can’t wait to see it in action.
Enjoy the journey.
Mandy
Hi Mandy!
Welcome back home. So I guess you’ve finally learned that life is more of a “ride”. I’m really glad you had the experience and I am glad you have taken the time to share it with us.
I rode a lot as a kid….rent a horse and follow a guide for a mile and back to the barn. Then when my fathers boss moved to Wyoming, Dad would take the family on vacation (he and I worked, building condo’s). But on the weekends Don (dad’s boss), dad and me took horses and supplies up the mountain and camped out at a glacer lake and fished all week end. Three years in a row. It was great. Right in the Grand Teton montain range.
By the way Don Schuch (German name sounds like shook) was also an artist. Painted and sculped. Showed all over the U.S. and Europe. Now he and his wife run an art supply shop in Boise, Idaho. He is 86 and still foin at it.
I have his first painting of a mother horse and the baby colt.
Take care af your animals ya’ll!
Jay
Hi Jay, thanks so much for this. I am really looking forward to being there again later this month – we are going for the weekend when the publicity filming will take place. I won’t just be a star in a photograph after all! We are holding an exhibition of the photographs of the horses here at the art gallery starting on October 10th. We are hoping ot raise quite a bit of money from that.
Enjoy the journey.
Mandy
Hi Mandy, The horse is such an amazing creature and your photos are magnificent. The short time I spent horseback riding in my youth are the days I’ll never forget – and as close to being a caballero as can be. Steve D
Hi Steve, thanks for visiting. I had an amazing time there and can’t wait to go back.
Enjoy the journey.
Mandy
Glad you had such a wonderful time Mandy. It’s great to connect with nature and the real world; gets everything into perspective. Keep up the good work.
John
Hi John, yes, I had a fabulous time and you are so right, we should all connect with nature more often.
Enjoy the journey.
Mandy
Hi Mandy,
I must admit i was blown away with the “world of whispers” site and the picture are fantastic of the horses, i love a sitye dedicated to animals..
Thanks for that Mandy….Ed.
Hi Ed, glad you are impressed with the project. It is a very worthy cause and hopefully you’ll go and tell all your friends about it now. We’re after the viral effect here! That way we get the word out to as many people as we can.
Enjoy the journey.
Mandy
I’ve always wanted to ride horses, especially on the beach. Unfortunately, I’m so very allergic to them. It sounds like you had a great time.
Thanks for visiting – hope you got time to visit the Project page, http://www.worldofwhispers.com. There are plans for ‘time share horses’ where, for a regular monthly fee, you can spend a whole day with your sponsored horse. Simply brilliant idea! And we’re relocating the project here to Norfolk so riding on the beach is now really possible.
Enjoy the journey.
Mandy