What wonderful thoughts. I am so glad we have our best
friends to calm our day and sooth the worries away. I spent time last
evening with my gelding that I have raised since he was 6 months. I
brushed out his mane and the rest of his body. He stood still in the
corral with no halter on loving every minute of the attention. Where I
am in my life right now I don't know that I would be functioning as well with
out my two companion horses. I am so thankful that they are a part of my
life.
Becky R. - Montana
Amen to that....I have done the same many times.
:)
I
believe that my favorite thing in all the world is to sit in the floor of
my horse's stall beside her fluffed pile of hay, and just watch and
listen as she sorts through and nibbles a nest in the pile. All of my
senses which have been tapped out by the groanings of my day, or
numbed by the little hands that demand all of me, seem to magically
refill with each breath Paanache takes.
There is no greater
smell than that of my horse. It is rivaled only by puppy breath. Only
those who share this deep affliction that loving a horse is can relate
to the wholesome, healing smell that belongs only to their
horse.
Occasionally she will look up from her comfortable pile
of hay to survey the night air with her radar ears and large,
thoughtful eyes, only to blow it all off and return leisurely to her
eating. I reach out and scratch her cannon bone and she returns my
gesture with a gentle nuzzle on my shoulder. This gratitude is more
than most human beings extend to each other, and the simplicity of it
humbles me.
It is this time -- after everyone else I seem to exist
for is in bed -- when I am me. . . just me. No deadlines, no games, no
body to please.
I sit and listen to the summer chorus of chrickets
in the background, singing nature's lulaby and, for the first time
today, my heart and mind are able to rest in the peace that I find
only in my horse and her company. My day sloughs off like a dead
snake's skin, and I return to the house refreshed. I kiss my son and
husband while they sleep and thank God for the gift of my wonderful
mare.
