Have A Story? Write It Down Life Lessons Inspired Author’s Horse-Centered Book MICHELLE KUNJAPPU Healing and Faith Through the titles and a few short thoughts, Lancaster Farming Staff Gift of a Horse” to show for it. she said. MOUNT JOY (Lancaster Co.) After receiving as a gift “Dad’s Later, after noticing an adver —“l should write a book.” Lady Grace,” an Arabian filly in tisement for short stories that Perhaps you’ve said these November 1995, Anthony’s jour- touched the soul about horses, words to youself, or maybe some- ney and story began. Anthony sent a story in that was one has encouraged you to write The high-spirited horse quickly published. “That’s when I your life’s experiences for future began teaching her lessons about thought “maybe this is something generations. trust, self-protection, panic, j ought to pursue,” she said. Between the moment of inspi- worry, self-sufficiency, and will- The book began t 0 take shape ration and seeing your words on fulness lessons that Anthony after Christma 6 s 2 001. “I had pages between a book cover, could paraUel m her own life. written notes that j k t on however, lies a long road of writ- “At the time, I was working as of just SQ , ould mg, thinking, revising, recheck- a secretary at Elizabethtown „. •. ing, discussing, and more writing. Brethren in Christ and every , , .„. ’ . , ‘ In spite of these challenges, time I would learn something . Anthony had dabbled at wnt- Kathleen Anthony decided to spiritual through working with in B f, n f| poetry through the take that road and now has “Les- the horse I’d go in to church and y 63 1" 8 ’ however as a church sec sons In Grace: My Journey to share it,” she said. retary most of her commercial Her friend wiring consisted of composing Wendv urged her concise blurbs for the bul,etin - Z zZtiZ ‘ <when f d r f at ... my computer and I got five ideas down, how- p 3 g eS) i thought ‘wow, this is re ever Anthony’s ally great,’” she said. “Then it thoughts made it just seemed like God just poured to paper only as words into my mind and it just 5O Head jffi* Real Good Broke Horses from Camp «Mus Broke for kids and adults. Sold at approx. 12:30 P.M, MONDAY, AUGUST 25,2003 Consigned by Carl Witheral For more info Contact: NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC. 12 mi. 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Once the book went to the pub lisher, changes, revisions, and re working were necessary. “I put in a few 14-hour days in front of the computer, until I could hardly see any more, but I couldn’t tear myself away. “I’d wake up in the middle of the night with thoughts and couldn’t get them out of my head.” She’d scribble notes to herself so when the morning came the thought would be cap lured, and begin again the next day. A self-described “dis ciplined person,” she said, “I never set a schedule for writing. I was just compelled to write until it was done. I would think it was done and then a week or two would go by and there was more things to add,” she said. “Some of the things were actually experi enced during the writing (Turn to Page EIO) We supply and install: I High Tensile 8 Poly Coated High | Tensile | Vinyl Horse Rail I Slip Board I Post & Board 8 Split Rail 8 Woven Wire Stockade | Vinyl I Ornamental I Electric Fence 8 Systems 8 Chain Link | (Galvanized & Vinyl | Coated) I Post Driving I Gates 9 Fence Line Clearing 8 Riding Ring Building | and Re-Surfacing | Excavating & Fencing I (888) 892-2235 100 A Love Road 9 We accept Visa, Master Card,Discover, Reading, PA 19607 5 American Express Office: 610*898*1421 I js@accelllnc.com Fax: 610*898*1422 I kept on going. “I thought I had the main thrust of the book done by Febru ary that I had most of it done,” said Anthony. However she found that the road that the book would take continue for months. It was that February that Grace kicked her “and I was ready to scrap the whole thing.” In spite of her discouragement with the horse, Anthony found that new chapters had yet to be added to the book. “I never dreamed that I would learn the major lessons, the life- IN STOCK
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