Spring is here. The horses are happy! Of course, I can’t get into their heads (though I’ve tried!), but there is green grass in the pasture so I think “happy” is a good guess.
Sheldon seems to be enjoying Spring and his retirement. That is when he isn’t busy removing boards from the fence. He tries to put his head through (like most horses and some people he subscribes to the axiom that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence), but his head is too big, and the board between the fence posts pops out; this, of course, startles him and he jumps back, but that won’t stop him from trying again later. He is not deterred by an occasional setback. In addition to physical beauty and grace, horses have a natural spirit that begs admiration.
We hope you are enjoying the warmer days. Even if you live where winter seems to hang on with any teeth it has left, Spring is around the corner. And now hope for relief from the pandemic. Some members of our family, in spite of efforts to be safe, came down with the virus in varying degrees of “sick”, but all made it through, and we’ve either been vaccinated or are in line to get one. Be well!
We hope that the new normal will be a better normal, with the “greener grass” that seemed to be on the other side of the fence right here close by and reachable. Over the past year, we must have learned what makes life sweeter.
I recommend Maria Shriver’s blog, The Sunday Paper, to any of you looking for hope and ideas of how to go forward with your “one wild and precious life.” (quote from poet Mary Oliver). Check it out.
To Spring!