pause for a word...

i could have chosen to be really mad at someone for sending us home with sick horses but why would i want to do that? what purpose would it serve? i have strong opinions about the whole wild horse and burro wipe-out which is what i think it is, but it was my choice to take this horse and i was ready to accept all of the consequences no matter what. i never want my opioions to hurt anyone, make life more difficult or cause a drift between myself and someone who has opinions that differ than mine. i'd rather work from common ground and and go from there. the folks who work at the corrals whom i consider friends, don't want me to have a sick horse or want any of them to be sick either so why broadcast ugliness when it only makes more ugly? when you go about adopting a horse, after it has picked you, you have to be ready for all that that experiance is going to bring you, teach you, give you. and, just like the horse your partnering with, you have to be strong of heart and soul because it's probably going to be a journey that will rock your world  and teach you lessons that you thought you already learned and some that you will be humbly thankful for. are you ready?

grant walkie - a horse-friendly and gentle wrangler at the litchfield corrals