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Walking Filly On Parade In L. A.; Beats Rose Bowl
Just received is a letter from Los Angeles, Calif, that tells us what is being done for the Tennessee Walking Horse in schools— and it’ s a lot better for the breed than an expensive display of the horse in the Tournament of Roses Parade( a display suggested every New Year’ s Day when the Rose Bowl takes place).
L. B. Ryel, supervisor of Elementary Science & Agriculture( a new Voice subscriber), tells us about it in the following letter:“ Dear Mr. Green,“ In answer to your card of April 21, 1963, 1 would like to tell you that our department in the Los Angeles City Schools is very unique. Our department makes it possible for the boys and girls of this crowded area to have an opporunity to see, to touch, and to learn something about all domesticated animals as well as all of the native wild animals of Southern California.
“ We have an animal center where boys and girls are bussed in. It is at this center that they get to view our Tennessee Walking Filly, and in the future her foal. We also have a cow, calf, a sheep, a goat, a pig, a turkey, and all the rest of the animals that go with a small farm.
“ We have " 138 elementary schools and have four mobile units that go to( he schools each day so the boys and girls can see and touch animals— one is the Small Stock, one the Dairy, one the Conservation and one is the Wildlife.
“ I would like to tell you more but it would take too much of your time. Thank you very much for your interest in our work. Sincerely,
LOS ANGELES CITY SCHOOLS L. B. Ryel, Supervisor Elementary Science & Agriculture
( Editor ' s Note— Dear Mr. Ryel; J am immensely thrilled with your letter. Your city seems destined to become the largest in the XJ. S. A. within my lifetime, and I am almost 61 years old— and on cancer probation. Right now I am going to write to some friends in Los Angeles and suggest that they get together on a project that will supply all the " 138 elementary schools of Los Angeles with a copy of my book— Biography of the Tennessee Walking Horse. I am placing a copy of this book in the mails for you today. It has an index that will be helpful to the young readers. It has 18 pages of color pictures. The kids will go wild over it— and it will help make the
Don t Try To Get More Mileage Than The Engine Is Built For
( Many beautiful and inspiring letters were received by the Editor during his illness last winter.
We wish to share this one with you, our Friends, because it meant so very much to us, and we feel that it might help others. BAG)
Dear Mr. Green:
We have your letter concerning the cancellation of your Training book and are truly sorry ol the circumstances that occasioned its writing. But our great disappointment in not receiving the new book, is overshadowed by the knowledge that the state of your health will prevent the publication.
We are taught that we are created in His image. Instead ol taking care of the wonderful gift of life, we are prone to try to get a little more mileage than the engine was built for. We ignore the little warnings of tension and overwork, that might have been collected— a stitch in time, so to speak.
Then we are so surprised when the line ceases to be slack and easy and we suddenly realize we are at ihe end of the tether— and must ease up on the line. If we let our basic feelings come to the surface, we can paw the ground and foam at the mouth, which will only further fray the rope, but we can also accept it, and live with it!
We can now have the time to remember our Creator, and do you know, it is Good that we are permitted to take His hand, and just leave things to Him. It is a wonderful feeling to realize that for once you are free to live each day as it dawns, paradoxically as that may seem, and as Longfellow said“ No longer forward or behind, 1 look with hope or fear But grateful, take the good 1 find— The best of Now and Here.” This decision was handed me after nearly four months hospitalization from a heart attack. I was told 1 could go at any time but with reasonable care 1. might die of a broken hip or something when 1 was 85. 1 chose the ' broken hip’ at 85— and told the medics that I planned to get from each remaining hour— 60 minutes of distance run— using the hard-earned experience and the brain the Good Lord gave me,
Tennessee Walking Filly( and especially her future foal) the BIG STAR of your Big Animal Show. Watch us go to help you tell the children all about the Tennessee Walking Horse. You are a source of great inspiration— perhaps a nationwide movement. Thanks New Friend. BAG.)
June, 1963
to monitor those hours profitably, but with discretion. During a long period of immobility, except mentally, 1 sought to retain the nearness to God that 1 had reached with the brush of death— Lo have and to hold forever. I lost all fear and the above poem became my motto.
At times when 1 tend to get low and sorry for myself, I look for the“ Best of Now and Here” and I have always found it. The golden nuggets seem to stand up out of the sand for the picking. It has been almost nine years since then, and I have lived more satisfactorily and more abundantly these nine years, than all of the 60 before— and 1 am grateful. I know the depths of despondency and the adjustments necessary. It takes courage and faith. May you have both.
" Faith "— By Sybil Leonard Armes Faith to me is a simple, shining thing— 1 know that He who marks the sparrows fall, Will care for me whatever the day may bring, And learn to hear my faintest, weakest call. Faith to me is but a daily creed of simple trust.
He will provide a way— who knows my every need, And that is all 1 need to know Today.
Few Walkers In Minnesota Area
Garlene Holt, 2185 Reaney Ave., St. Paul 19, Minn, says that there so few Walkers in her area, that whenever she sees a name mentioned in the Voice of a nearby owner, she writes to him immediately. It has been difficult for people in the St. Paul area to show their Walkers in the shows, until this year. Carlene says that a newly created Open English Pleasure Class incorporated by many shows, allows the Walker to be shown. The pleasure gait clause allows the Walker to do the running walk while the others trot.
Carlene writes:“ 1 am having my mare, Secret’ s Painted Lady out of Midnight Secret, bred to a double Midnight Sun stallion down in Iowa and plan to show her in this area this coming summer. I have a yearling stud colt out of her and a Merry Boy bred stud, who is really developing into a real Walkin’ colt! I do believe I’ ll have to sell him, however, as I board my horses out and one is about all I can alTord. My colt’ s name is Secret’ s Royal Silver.”