Riding Baranca - Laura Chester

Riding Baranca by Laura Chester

Riding Baranca

Finding Freedom and Forgiveness on the Midlife Trail

Laura Chester

In this remarkable one-year journal skilled horsewoman and adventurer Laura Chester brings us into her world where we deeply connect with the earth and its seasons with beauty and sometimes danger. While riding in places as far-reaching as Mexico Australia and India Chester is always grateful to come home to the comforts of her familiar horse. As they cover the borderland of Arizona and the hills of Massachusetts we get to know Barranca as intimate companion mediator between soul and nature whether entering the wilds of Cochise Stronghold or picking Berkshire apples from the saddle.

Carried along on waves of memory released by the gaits of her smooth-moving fox trotter this literary memoir takes us on a personal exploration as wellwhere family relationships are fractured by anger jealousy illness and death. With the help of her big-hearted animal Chester is able to retrieve the past and ?nd forgiveness. For as she saysRiding Barranca puts me in the moment which is whereI want to live.