Horse of the day: FORZA-B, the exceptional & handsome gelding last week joining my magnificent mare MAGNUMS JAVANNAH to complete my Arabian full blood ox team 🏇 🏇. We hope he'll be as rapid and strong as Javannah in Endurance Racing. He sure looks like it!

Horse of the day: COURAGE, a wonderful Danish warmblood showjumper, whom I had borrowed for an endurance race a few weeks ago, and who lost a shoe, so we had to walk 7 km to the finish line, Courage at 17 years being feisty as a young colt - here eagerly chewing a branch.

It's been 12 years since I initiated this petition of international authors at the Palestine Literature Festival against additional Israeli settlements in the West Bank (reading it here in Ramallah) "The Israeli occupation ... is itself illegal ..." 1/2

First, the Horse of the Month: here swimming with the amazing fast racer Storm in a lake of the South African highlands on a hot day-long ride amongst wild animals in the bush.

Surprisingly, for once I agree with the Israeli Defence Minister: There should be no leader in place bombing the hospitals of and seeking to destroy another country ... Indeed Defence Minister Katz, your own government awaits your clean-out ...

PABLO NERUDA in AUSENCIA
...
Pero espérâmes,
guárdame tu dulzura.
Yo te daré también
una rosa.

Octavio PAZ in NIGHTFALL:
"...
Receiving night,
the groves become
hushed fountains.
..."
(photo: my garden this afternoon)

Here midways in 'On Reading John Cage' by Octavio Paz:
" Silence is an idea,
the idée fixe of music.
Music is not an idea:
it is movement,
sounds walking over silence ... "

And just because I think bluesky needs some horses - here's mine, my much loved and always galopping Arabian mare RM Magnums Javannah. Any horse lovers who sees this, please post your horses in the comments ...