Anna Karenina

Imagine sitting high in the saddle atop a chestnut color mare as she carefully trots over a turf of slightly frozen snow and under the shadows of tall trees camouflaged with winter moss. Slowly read the following passage and allow yourself to see and feel the experience Tolstoi describes:

“And Levin rode through the slush of the farmyard to the gate and out into the open country, his good little horse, after his long inactivity, stepped out gallantly, snorting over the pools, and asking, as it were, for guidance. If Levin had felt happy before the cattle-pens and farmyard, he felt happier yet in the open country. Swaying rhythmically with the ambling paces of his good, little cob, drinking in the warm yet fresh scent of the snow and the air, as he rode through his forest over the crumbling, wasted snow, still left in parts, and covered with dissolving tracks, he rejoiced over every tree, with the moss reviving on its bark and the buds swelling on its shoots.”

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