Doris Halstead’s Blog

What is it about “some” of us?  That connection that comes with gazing at our first horse moving freely, coming to a stop and the horse gazing back at us.  We know that feeling.  To deny it would be to deny love itself.  I see so much all over the country, over 5000 race horses died on the tracks of the US since 2003, Mustangs are corraled and sometimes shot, horses, no longer harvested for meat here, are sometimnes cruelly transported across the border to Mexico where they still have processing plants for them.  The Premarin babies often do not find homes, and now the mares are being released to ? where?  There is concern over the roll cur technique of training and it’s cruelty.  on  on  on  and on.  I have come to believe our allegiance and focus to these type of problems should stay with us at home, where we work, at our recreation.  If we keep ourselves true, honest, informative, focused on being the most loving and best human we are personally capable of toward ANYone and to the living creatures we encounter , we ARE doing something.  This would include writing notes and/or e-mails to the appropriate people as we find who they are.  Informing quietly and civily those we encounter of our concerns and awarenesses.  Being fully aware is a difficult task.   It means opening our eyes to what is going on around us and in our world.  It means accepting what we cannot do but then acting on what we can.  It means shareing with others our talents and gifts.  It means being PART of this world, engaging, loving, living.  When all is said and done, the horse who has chosen to work and experience in tandem with some of us humans gives us back our sanity and our focus and our purpose.   I am joining you in this endeavor.  Doris

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