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Finding Peace with Horses

A Few Words about Grief

6/15/2016

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​Often we are told, if we are to be horse trainers, to leave our emotions at the gate.  But sometimes it happens that we ARE the gate.  Not an ordinary gate, but a sluicegate, holding back the tides and the incoming waves. And not just our own waves, but the rushing streams and confluences of a whole family. A family with its original center dead and gone, leaving the survivors adrift now and again, dealing with and accepting that those we loved SO MUCH who have died before us aren’t coming back.  
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​Where we find our strength is in understanding that now it’s our turn to be the heartbeat of our own family, be it blood relatives or a family we have built ourselves.  

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