I love horses. It is very simple like that. I have been profoundly moved by so many things in life. None has touched me in the same way as the horses do. All horses everywhere.

 A few years ago my sister handed me a picture of myself at around 3yrs old, I am smiling with a big red thoroughbred behind me. I almost remember what that felt like for me as a child so small. I still get "that feeling" when I am with them and when I work with them I feel like I can do anything.

 My work with horses has changed over the years.   I didn't think twice about asking my horses to help me carry my laundry to the river when I lived in the Amazon. I wouldn't have believed you if you told me that there are those that protest working horses...not when 3yr old children work in the Amazon. People in the village I lived in complained that I didn't have them work more!

I cannot imagine ever NOT working with them in my life. For that reason I have devoted my life to trying to "bring back the memory" as one of favorite south american healers says of what horses are and what we are with them. We are better off...I feel like we are really just beginning to really have good relationships with them in this day and age. We are finally trying to "see" them for what they are. Special co-inhabitants that have shared this journey with us for as long as there is civilization. We have a hand in having cultivated them to develop special abilities. There is a responsibility we have to them.

The fact that they are ever at risk for slaughter in a horrific way, in an industrial slaughter system not designed for them, is enough of a reason to stand up and try to make a difference for them.