Andy Welsh

“Чтобы поверить в добро, надо начать делать его.”   Л.Н.Толстой.

“In order to believe in good it is necessary to begin to make/do it.”   Tolstoy.

Where I consider home: Candia, New Hampshire.
Why it matters for me to be on this expedition: I participated in a weeklong Equine Enhanced Learning course with Pam and Paul in the spring of 2009. I never imagined it would have as profound an effect on me as it did. Pam and Paul’s course left me with a lot of unexpected personal and professional questions. I see this expedition as a uniquely poignant avenue to explore these questions.
Influential book or movie: The Magus by John Fowles. It was one of the only books my host family had in English. I stumbled upon it two months into my stay. I locked myself in my bedroom in St. Petersburg, Russia for almost a day and a half. It is hard for me to say whether the book or the reading experience affected me more. Something about the world Fowles created, and the world I was in, made me feel that book in a way I had never felt in a book before.
If I could change one thing in the world it would be: I would like to see the people of the world (and myself!) be more intentional. I think that if we took the time to be as intentional as possible in our thoughts and actions there would be a lot of positive change in the world.

To read about Andy’s experiences on the expedition, click here.