Discovering the path to honor, by Ghuan Featherstone
Meditative Story
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4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Ghuan Featherstone is determined to go his own way – to live with courage, kindness, and faith in justice. To be a cowboy. But growing up in a neighborhood rife with gang violence, the forces marshaled against him feel beyond his control. After visiting a little-known horse stable in South Central LA, Ghuan discovers a path to honor on the back of a horse, casting the most iconic American hero in his own image, and embracing the Cowboy Code he swore by as a boy.
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| 0:00.0 | Gradually, I find I can relate to people a little bit more. I start to open up. |
| 0:23.6 | Every week I see new faces on the hill. |
| 0:26.6 | Folks we see out in the hood when we're out riding around, come up and have a look. |
| 0:32.6 | It's like we're building a real community up here. |
| 0:39.0 | It fills me with a sense of purpose. |
| 0:43.0 | Eventually, my longing to be elsewhere lifts. |
| 0:48.7 | Now I just long to be here on the hill. |
| 0:53.5 | With all these horses. |
| 0:59.8 | In today's episode, we're back exploring cowboy culture, but through a fresh lens. |
| 1:05.9 | Reimagining a quintessential American icon, born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, a neighborhood |
| 1:12.6 | rife with gang violence and drugs, Guan Featherstone was determined to go his own way. |
| 1:19.6 | Inspired by the cowboys he watched on TV as a boy, he lives his life by a code. Showing courage |
| 1:26.7 | and kindness, |
| 1:28.8 | Guan's life was transformed by learning to ride horses |
| 1:31.7 | at a small stable hidden deep in South Central. |
| 1:36.2 | Today, as the founder of urban saddles, |
| 1:39.4 | he shares his passion for horsemanship with his community, |
| 1:42.6 | Living the Cowboy Code. |
| 1:45.2 | In this series, we combine immersive first-person stories |
| 1:48.9 | and breathtaking music |
| 1:50.3 | with the science-backed benefits of mindfulness practice. |
| 1:55.0 | From Wait-to-Wat and Thrive Global, |
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