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Dark, Dark Were The Tunnels by George R. R. Martin - Well-written, interesting story.

There are some cool stories here. So far the best stories are:

Salvage by Orson Scott Card
The People of Sand and Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi
How We Got Into Town and Out Again by Jonathan Lethem

The one by Stephen King was a forgettable throwaway. Bread and Bombs was just dumb and uninteresting, and kept incorrectly using the word “reigns” instead of “reins” for a horse cart.

Wu wei - “not doing”

Talking about the death and monetary value of her expensive purebred filly before surgery…not feeling much emotion about it, more matter-of-fact “I had medical and mortality insurance on her, so I could use the money for a new horse” or “didn’t want to feed a lame horse for 20 years” if she lived. My experience with Raven was much more agonizing emotionally, & I didn’t have anything near her resources.

Jung’s client’s dream - the bones of a young woman, exposed to daylight, transformed into a black horse that galloped across the desert into the grasslands on the other side. The mare had led the pursuing king on a journey to the lost keys of paradise. The black horse illustrates the characteristics of anima (soul). Befriend her & she becomes an artistic muse. Ignore/overpower her & she inflicts nightmares.

Carl Jung - recognized images of black mares as manifestations of feminine wisdom rising up from the collective unconscious.”

“In the guise of a black horse, the night mare was thought to be the punisher of sinners. She was also the destroyer aspect of the Greek mother goddess Demeter.”

Intro xvii: “Horses relate to the world from a feminine or ‘yin’ perspective…including cooperation over competition, responsiveness over strategy, emotion and intuition over logic, process over goal, and the creative approach to life that these qualities engender.”

xx: “…the mysteries of life, the most potent gifts of existence, quite often arrive on the backs of black horses.”