by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, Faith, Old Man on the porch
Howdy Friends! The old man sat watching the trees sway in high wind. To and fro they went, just blowing with the wind. He thought about young ones growing up today. It’s easy to get caught up, led astray in our youth. He took a battered tablet from his shirt...
by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, Horse Care, It's for the Horses
Howdy Friends! It’s easy to help your horse truly understand you and requires no special training, clinics or instructors. First, we must truly want our horse to understand us, in our hearts and thoughts. Second, we must spend time, a good deal of it, just being with...
by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, Faith
Howdy Friends! It is obvious that Gibeon’s treason was the motivation for their hatred and their assault on the nation of the Gibeonites. Yet, Israel was bound by a blood oath to protect the newly assimilated nation as their own people. (Joshua 9:3) Consider a similar...
by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, Horse Care, It's for the Horses
Howdy Friends! Let’s be honest with ourselves. What, from the horse’s perspective, have we as advocates really accomplished in past decades? Thoroughbreds still started and raced before skeletal systems are even 60% mature—many broken down and discarded by age 3....
by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, Faith
Howdy Friends! I’m going to comment on a subject so sensitive, yet so taken for granted that today it seems to be slipping from our grasp. Watching a clip recently about the Statue of Liberty,I was struck by the commentator, “Lady Liberty is the very essence of...
by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, Writing
Howdy Friends! Back about 10 years ago, our friend, and fellow author, Jodi Stewart wondered if I could, “bring a rusty bucket to life.” So accepting her challenge I wrote the first part and posted it on Facebook. The story kept talking to me and I had to...