The Mare and the Mouse

Stories of My Horses Vol. I

De: Martín Prechtel

Narrado por: Martín Prechtel

Duración: 8 h y 13 m

Resumen del Editor

Beautiful and hilarious, tearful and rambunctious, very real, ironic, and magic-filled, Martín Prechtel’s book The Mare and the Mouse is a series of lyrical sagas in tribute to each of the native New Mexican horses that carried him through his youth on the Reservation and then again during the difficult times following his return home after over a decade in the Mayan Highlands of Guatemala.

First in the Stories of My Horses series, The Mare and the Mouse is meant to be enjoyed with crowds around campfires, especially with people who mistakenly believe that only rich people or rednecks ride horses. Prechtel credits both his own physical and spiritual survival in “modernity’s mad rush to nowhere” with the sanity of riding and living with his natural-born Southwestern horses. Not raised for show, performance, status, or money, these little horses allowed a way of living that took him flying over ravines into deep-mountain Holy places, backwards over streams, and, in general, kept alive a sparkier older spirit in an age where horses have been grossly de-natured and sadly removed from our own everyday lives after three millennia as the closest companions of our ancestors’ dreams and mythologies.

©2021 Martín Prechtel (P)2022 Martín Prechtel

Thanks and Blessings

As always, I come away humbled at the author's gifts of words and descriptions for the many layers of life. His wicked laugh and mischievous sense of humor are priceless. Another beautiful listen.

Thank You!

This audiobook is good company.
Author reading his stories is even better! Plus, living & loving horses is fun~ thanks for these gifts of history, culture, partnerships with horses & humans… and others… looking forward to listening again, this and your other books as well Martín! As always, your generosity inspires!!!
All my best,
S

From the Horse’s mouth!

That’s what they say, when you hear it from the bubbly fountain source- “from the horse’s mouth.” Straight from the sea dripping like the first of horses, Martín re-salts us like salmon do the mountains. Some water comes to us from above and some water springs to us from below- these words give us the means to hydrate and restore the original natural vision from within. I am more in love with horses and the wide open ride than ever. The rider, and writer, the written and the ridden are magically with us in audible form- this is a treasure to share with the ones in your life who love life the most and also for the ones who need remembering of what there is left to love. Big subjects blend in here, I hope you can listen like I horse might and catch the airs and breezes that come off such a laureate mind. Who’s going to nominate Martín for the New Mexico poet laureate? He’s all shell, corn, and horse—the jeweler having become a facet of the Jewel. A deep bow round as dew on the wild rose to you and all you love Martín! Another shimmering beauty for the world—what a blessing.