Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 Page 68 Page 69 Page 70 Page 71 Page 72 Page 73 Page 74 Page 75 Page 76 Page 77 Page 78 Page 79 Page 80 Page 81 Page 82 Page 83 Page 84Plough Quarterly • Winter 2017 53 Hassan Ikhzaan Saleemwas born in the Maldives. Raised in a family that encouraged reading western classic literature, he fell in love with the American West and the idea of working with horses. He attended college in New Mexico and lived with a family that owned a ranch. There he learned to ride horses and to train them in the Vaquero style, with a focus on patience. I work with this red horse, Caspian.We work and we get things done and I’m so proud of myself. I come back next morning and he’s forgotten everything or I’ve forgotten everything, and it doesn’t work. It’s hard to be calm at that moment. I get frustrated. I get mad. But tomorrow is a new day. All is forgiven. I’m not Mahatma Gandhi. I’m not Martin Luther King Jr. or Nelson Mandela. My parents said to me, “You might never change the world and you might never see the change you want to see, but at least you tried.” So that’s why I try. Even with horses. People say, “Aw, you’ve been working with this horse for six months, he still sucks.” And I say, “Well, I’ll keep trying, and one day that horse will be great and I’ll ride him in the biggest rodeo. I’m going to take him up in the high country and pull a steer, and it’ll be the most beautiful thing in the world.”  ■ “If humans were like horses, there’d be more peace on earth.”