You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell.

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.

A challenge that tested Tom to his limit but in return gave him more than he could ever have imagined.