Today is all about hope and inspiration; the stories we picked to highlight all have a hopeful tone and an inspirational message.  This wasn't by design, but a pleasant design, nonetheless.  Who's going to ride Wyoming's wild horses?  You will be surprised to find out.  Sam Bennett, the new Master's champ, has another inspirational message given to him by his father, and Lake Tahoe is singing the blues.  This is a quick read guaranteed to warm your soul.

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In a story, we found on Nice News (add link), CBS and 60 MINUTES tells the story of The Wyoming Honor Farm, where prisoners learn how to train wild horses.  In the old days, breaking a horse or getting a bucking bronco to settle and let someone ride it.  From a management perspective, there are too many wild horses in several midwestern states; taking a portion of them and training them to be ridden and then sold at auction solves several problems.  Using resources like the prison population to help with that adds to the efficiency of the horses and the inmates.

Moving away from breaking a horse to using patience and practice to enable a horse to be ridden is a more significant aspect of the story.  It makes us wonder how many inmates can relate to the feeling of being broken by using force and negative reinforcement.  It also made us wonder how many other things you can train or change with the use of patience and time over power and speed.  As many of the ancient philosophers have said, fire is a force and will go fast and hard wherever there is air and stuff to burn; water, on the other hand, will sit and wait wherever it ends up, then it will find a small hole and drip and move over millennia.  Michael Davis, a participant in the program, says teaching a horse how to be ridden is a skill and can't be acquired without a few scars.

Josh Spector sent this story from The PGA about Sam Bennett recent Masters winner, about his dad.  The message is simple, and the story is inspiring.

Lake Tahoe sits between the border of California and Nevada and has tried over the years to keep the majestic blue lake as blue as possible.  It limits the size of the boats and vehicles, allows for to reduction of pollution, it has manual cleanup crews, and every once in a while, gets a boost from Mother Nature when the snowfall amounts increase.  None of that compares to what scientists have concluded is an abundance of zooplankton and their insatiable appetite for cloudy particles in the lake.  The article from The Guardian suggests that the information is still being researched, but the appearance of a sky-blue Lake Tahoe indicates that tiny critters know how to clean a lake. 

One of the factors that could have increased the zooplankton is the reduction in Mysis shrimp that were initially introduced in the 60s.  The article doesn't go into why the shrimp population is down but does say it expects it to rebound, and when it does, zooplankton will be on that menu.  In the meantime, the big blue lake should see an increase in visitors and photographers before the shrimp return.

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