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If we don’t stop him soon, Harry thought, there won’t be a single cookie left in the whole city – and it will be all my fault!
Horsie swooped down right in front of CookieBot. then he dropped the bait: an enormous rainbow sugar cookie.
-CookieBot! A Harry and Horsie Adventure, written by Katie Van Camp and illustrated by Lincoln Agnew
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“Mongolians believe the spirit of a horse can live on in its hair, even long after death, and in the past, nomad warriors collected the hair from their best stallions to weave into a sulde or “spirit banner,” which served to bring good luck and as a way of harnessing the spirit of nature. Genghis Khan had famously used a white spirit banner in times of peace and a black banner for guidance during war, and it was thought that after death the soul of the warrior was preserved in these tufts of stallion hair.”
-On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
A description of the journey from the beginning of the book:
“The world expanded with every new challenge, from frostbitten toes to the dark clouds of mosquitoes that came with summer in Siberia. But most of all it was the people who left an impression on me….I found it astonishing that in the midst of an adventure I experienced more comradeship and connection with many of these people than with those where I had grown up in Australia.“
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…there was an overwhelming sense that animals and humans coexisted on the margins of survival, each knowing its unique role.
-On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
A description of the journey from the beginning of the book:
The world expanded with every new challenge, from frostbitten toes to the dark clouds of mosquitoes that came with summer in Siberia. But most of all it was the people who left an impression on me….I found it astonishing that in the midst of an adventure I experienced more comradeship and connection with many of these people than with those where I had grown up in Australia.
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These photos were taken between October of 2007 and April of 2009. I was living in Delaware while working contracts in Philadelphia, New Jersey and surrounding areas. This is a common living arrangement because the trains provide a straight (and … Continue reading