{"id":3028,"date":"2018-12-06T13:01:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T20:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/?p=3028"},"modified":"2018-12-18T18:10:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T01:10:29","slug":"learning-to-train-through-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/?p=3028","title":{"rendered":"Learning To Train Through Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I stopped in town today to drop something off. There on the front \nstep, a native man stood, talking, waiting while the women folk did \ntheir shopping. He was very friendly and said hi as I walked past. On my\n way out we struck up a conversation. He introduced himself. His name \nwas wonderful and in the native tongue, Tatanka something that meant \ntwo. Of course I can&#8217;t remember it, I can barely remember my own \nchildren&#8217;s names. I told him that of course I knew what Tatanka meant! I&#8217;ve seen Dances With Wolves.<br>\n He said he would tell me how to say anything I wanted to know. I want \nto know all of it! How often do we get a chance like that? My mind \ndoesn&#8217;t absorb knowledge as quickly as my thirst for it would desire. I \nfroze, I couldn&#8217;t think of anything to ask. Finally I said hi. I want to\n know how to say hello. He told me. He told me quickly and fluently. <br>\n I tried. I stumbled through repeating it, poorly and with terrible \npronunciation I&#8217;m sure. He knew what he was doing though and kept going.\n More words. Paragraphs of things I was unable to grasp. No way my mind,\n already lagging behind, could remember. <br> As I drove home repeating \nthe one phrase I could almost grasp over and over to myself, trying \ndesperately to force the knowledge into my brain, it occurred to me that\n we often do the same thing with our horses. We know what it is we are \ntrying to teach. We know what the outcome should look like. In our \nexcitement and enthusiasm we keep pushing more and more of our knowledge\n to our horses. <br> Our horses are usually willing, they do try so hard\n to get along. They do their best to grasp all the things we keep \nthrowing at them. Perhaps if we slowed down a little. If we worked on \none thing at a time. Gave them a chance to catch up, to learn that one \nthing before we moved on to the next. Perhaps we would speed up the \ntraining by slowing it down a little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The phrase I was trying so hard to grasp? It was along these lines. Not quite this, instead it was we will meet again, I think, but this was the closest I could find.: Ah kay wan chee keyn ktay = It was good to see you again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2018\/12\/CameraZOOM-20181201131525912.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2018\/12\/CameraZOOM-20181201131525912.jpg 800w, https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2018\/12\/CameraZOOM-20181201131525912-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2018\/12\/CameraZOOM-20181201131525912-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped in town today to drop something off. 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