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Maude Ouellette-Dube

Feb 101 min

Sharing a poem - "Horses"

Hello, I hope you are doing well. No intricate text for you today, I just wanted to share a poem from Pablo Neruda that I find especially...

Maude Ouellette-Dube

Jan 187 min

Equine aesthetic, wild horses and rugged bodies

There is a story that I have been wanting to share with you for some time. But I did not find the time to write it. Or perhaps all that...

Maude Ouellette-Dube

Aug 24, 20233 min

Children, horses and philosophy

"Children, from the ages of about three or four to about seven or eight, raise almost all the basic questions of philosophy in some form...

Maude Ouellette-Dube

May 3, 20235 min

Should horses work?

Hello dear reader. Welcome to my blog. I am back after a long hiatus. That is the time it took for me to finish my doctoral thesis. Now...

Maude Ouellette-Dube

Apr 4, 20213 min

Just sitting together

I once read in a horse book: "You could just sit with a horse and feel better." This sentence stuck with me. On the one hand, I found its...

Maude Ouellette-Dube

Sep 27, 20203 min

Why is it always about riding?

When we do philosophy, we start with a question. That's our primary starting point. Although we'll try to formulate an answer, we'll...

Maude Ouellette-Dube

Sep 14, 20203 min

Can we be friends with horses?

The question of friendship with horses is important for many people and has probably never been more popular today. A number of horse...

"At that time I could not at all understand what they meant by speaking of me as being a man's property. The words "my horse" applied to me, a live horse, seemed to me as strange as to say "my land," "my air," or "my water"." Tolstoy, Kholstomeer: The Story of a Horse