Today is clear and bright, the sun gleaming on washed greenery everywhere. During the long dry months everything here gets coated with a layer of dust that mutes the colors. A good rain like the one on Sunday is like cleaning your eyeglasses. Suddenly everything POPs with color.
Our online riding lessons are becoming more popular. We run them for an hour on Tuesdays, a couple times a month we hold a two-hour lesson on Friday. Members stop by for text-based roleplay riding.
The theater of the mind is a wonderful place. Members have to visualize what they would do, then write about it. Going through the process makes them think about their real-life riding intently. I found that the lessons make my real-life riding better, more focused because I have visualized doing it correctly so many times online.
When we go to give out the ribbons, the same experience of nervousness and pins and needles tension as a real show appears. It's pretty unique, it is easy to forget that we are all these individual people all over the world, sitting at computers.
The club's community and group spirit reflects the original IP. Jeanne Betancourt's books have a particular feeling to them that infuses the site. Today one member wrote about inviting new members into a club --
It wouldn't be the 'Pony Pals' (NOT BEING MEAN)
And of course that member is right. Club Pony Pals (and the Pony Pals books) are all about inclusivity. One of our members wrote that our site was the "most Welcoming" place online she had ever been.
It's a tough old world out there. I think that there is a market for a place that offers friendship.
From the owner and creator of Club Pony Pals, where anyone can ride the pony they always wanted.
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