Allow the injuries to heal...physical and emotional.
I rode too soon after breaking a leg and shattering an ankle (on another
horse)...
I, then, fractured my pelvis...nine steel plates the size of silver dollars
are now my constant companions.
I discovered (shame on me) that there are things MORE IMPORTANT THAN
RIDING...walking oneself to the bathroom, walking outside and feeding the horses
and seeing the hoarfrost covering the hairy horse bodies during winter, walking
outside and watching the golden retriever busting through the brush as the
first, heavy white snowflakes fall onto his hairy golden red self...
