All the pretty horses

Octavia again has encouraged me to reminisce about  all my pretty horses, of which I have had many.
First there was a little chestnut mare called 'Wirraway' a pony lent to me when I was 12, she was naughty, but she taught me to ride, well at least to stay on, otherwise if she was successful in unbalancing my seat, she would run off home and I would have to trudge a long way back to fetch her!
Oh then my dear bold and even naughtier, King Eboneeza!, Oh what a handful he was, but all the better, because without his infinite bravery he wouldn't have taught me to be brave myself. he was Black as,  well, ebony and had the biggest heart and courage. He was ready every early frosty morning for adventure!!

'Octavia and Copernicus' Photo: Heather Grigg

There was Summer Dew, a bay palouse pony, then the gentle appaloosa, 'Majestic Opal'. Then Mr Tom, the retired racehorse who couldn't race a tortoise, then Gunya, a black Palouse, so sweet. All the while my faithful 'Ebony' and I were exploring hills losing ourselves in the bush and the magic of the Australian landscape.

Love is forgiving

So many more came into my life, well it broke my heart (and still does) when I had to sell King Eboneeza, we had been together 11 years. My life was changing and responsibility was important. It wasn't right I guessed, to be gallivanting around on a fiery horse when my two babes needed me to be safe and sensible.

So, my precious Cisco's Soxy, a black Tobero Paint (Quarter Horse) came into my life. Sweet and obedient, she gave me a lot of joy. 4 foals, her first being 'Jethrow's Timbre' I later bought the gentle young Black Tabiano Pinto/ASH Stallion and all was adventure again! 

Timbre, Poco, Echo and Eclipse were born to be part of the foal frolicking!

Well, I have to say, Octavia always tugs at my heart, walking me along those memory paths, drawing the rawness of those moments in life when we are truly alive... truly truly living!

The music is the key, the path and the soothing yet melancholy way that the harmonies are alchemized into our being, like food, like sustenance.

Timbre, Soxy and I, three mature ladies now

So now a new piece of music has been born out of Octavia's Dream Studio this week, 'Equuleus'. (foal brother of Pegasus constalation) It dances, and gallops along, taking me every time to those moments of bliss when all my world was a free gallop on my bold black horse, wind, rain, sleet or sun, embracing my smiling face...., ahhhhhhhhhhh that is being alive! 

Soxy and I

You can hear this piece here
EQUULEUS

Music, in Octavia's dreams

About~Octavia... -KätheLissa-Käthe
Octavia is the eighth child and born on a Thursday

Octavia composers and orchestrates all the music, it comes from her and in a very capable way, she has determination and is definitive on how the music must go, no compromise. But she guides, nurtures, and is full of strength and grace.
She is the teacher, but not always conventional, her attire feminine and striking. Buttons frills flowers and bows, satin and velvet. She is neither ancient nor modern, but every era resides in her imagination.

Octavia’s favorite colours are reds and autumn is her season. 

The black Bosendorfer grand piano, her stage.

Nature is her passion, her courageous black Friesian horse 'Copernicus ' and 'Freya' her faithful white bull terrier are her companions when exploring the wilderness of the world.

Octavia is very clever and adaptable, loving and caring, playful and cheeky. Her childlike qualities are infectious, her strength and grace so comforting.

She likes to express the stories of life through the music

Octavia is the one with the wisdom, with arms wide open.

She is positive and inspires us.

She was a grown up as a child and remains a child as a grown up

These are the adventures of  Octavia, the music she creates and her journey to inspire and comfort this little blue world 

Fergalnally octavia


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