As 2025 drew to a close, a new project began stirring with me. After I finished Dancing the Tightrope, I developed a 5-week introductory course to help people be better under pressure. Then it sat in my computer for several years. A few went through it, but I knew from the beginning that an introductory course barely scratched the surface. At the same time, I've been cleaning out my office, preparing for our move sometime in 2026. I found my notes from The Artist's Way, a book that's really a program I did in 1999. The work I did in those few months still shapes me in meaningful ways, 26 years later. We moved to Lake Lure because of that work. One of the exercises in the book asked me to write my 20 favorite things to do, in order if possible. Then go back and write the last time you did it. Guess what was number 1? I was actually shocked when I found the notebook and it said "ride horses." The last time had been many years before. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you aren't surprised, because I'm now deeply involved with horses. But that only barely began in 2017, the year that I fell off a horse and began the journey I shared in Dancing the Tightrope. It took me EIGHTEEN years! While we are talking about statistics, when I decided to get back on the horse, I kept a list with the ...