We are at a huge turning point in our program. Mustang conservation programs have taken some hard hits this summer. Some of the oldest and most significant programs have ceased to be. The trends are all downward for Colonial Spanish mustangs. If there was ever a time to give up, this is it.
With that in mind. We have taken stock of the situation and I have sought the opinion of a lot of people. Under the current circumstances it is difficult to imagine continuing our program as it currently exists.
So we have decided to work to radically expand our programs in order to work with more horses and more people. We are going to become much bigger than we are now.
If I am going to sink it is going to be in a ship, not a row boat.
I will be announcing some of the changes over the next few weeks, but for now I want to announce the beginning of a new program that is very important to me. Kay Kerr has been working tirelessly to develop a program for veterans who are coming home from Afghanistan with scars that are not visible. Kay understands how much healing happens when a person gets in a round pen with a horse and uses natural horsemanship to gain the horse's, trust, respect, and love.
This was all Kaye's idea. She has worked hard for this and deserves all of the credit. I am just pleased that we can be a part of it.
Momma and Lido both would be very pleased to see our horse lot being used this way.
(This is a picture of Pasture number 1--even the plants can see that a new day is coming for us.)
I am game for anything...I certainly welcome the Vets..I truly do not believe there is anything better for us than horses..there is much healing in a horse.
ReplyDeleteOur scars are often hard to see, and at once hard to hide, we return to a nation which does not understand, for that matter, we often do not understand, Some problems are simple, and some are very profound...It matters little, they are still problems. Sometimes a simple paper cut can become a raging infection.
There is no such thing as an undamaged Vet. We may not wear a Purple Heart, we may not have a rated disability, but everyone who comes out of the service has scars.
Military or otherwise, it is incumbent upon us as a race of man to invest heavily in our people and our planet. Otherwise, the last man standing, please turn out the lights. -Lloyd