We yearn for something that's
powerful and strong and true and genuine.
Everything today seems to be so manipulated and plastic
and not honest.
Horses.... those are honest.
These things have a wonderful soul.
They call me 'The lady with the horses.'
I like that, I like to be called 'The Horse Lady.'
When they come running towards me
I feel at home, and feel that I am a part of the gang.
I need someone to talk to in the evening.
I need somebody to share stuff with.
So I talk to my buddies - the horses.
I tell them my problems.
The ones that wanted to hear me would come and stand close.
I think I've always been blessed to have animals in my life.
The horses have given us some of the best
nature experiences and really taken us close to nature.
So we have been places we would never have been
if it was not for the horses.
You really feel alive when you are outside.
Just to be on this horse and to feel that lovely motion
and the grass around you, and the mountains there.
People just become quiet and they just suck it up.
We've become so divorced from the soil and from animals.
Get out and get grass between your toes.
Get out and be amongst animals.
Your spot on the planet becomes more clear
when you're out here.
It just is magic, and you've got to pinch yourself you know.
It's just good for your soul.
It's just so good for your insides.
There's a little saying,
'What's on the outside of a horse'
'is good for the inside of man.'
They teach you a lot about yourself
and you really are faced with who you are
and what type of person you are.
I think they have taught me a lot more patience.
They teach you how to stay calm,
how to keep your head together.
They say they are stubborn, and I say,
'Yeah, ok, because they are smart.'
You have to convince them to do what you want to do.
Very similar to my personality.
I don't want anybody to force me to do something.
I want to do it my way.
And I think what they do is they bring you right back
to a point where you realise that
you're actually just a little human
who is lucky enough to be around these wonderful animals.
It makes you humble and puts you in your place.
Looking after these wonderful, wonderful animals
and knowing that I'm giving them a chance at a nice life,
it's all worth it.
I sometimes sit on that little piece of wood there next to the fence
and watch the horses, and there is so much talking.
They don't speak English.
But the eyes, ears, body posturing and movement...
there's a lot of communication.
You start to read them, and visa versa,
they start to read you too.
I think what people miss
is that you're not your language,
you're not your voice,
you're not the words that come out of your mouth.
You are more than that.
Unfortunately we've allowed language to get in the way.
It's about intuition.
It's about knowing that you just trust yourself.
That's true communication - we all have the ability to do that.
And I think if we have that power
there's so much else out there that we just have to trust.
I don't know how many people have had the joy
of sitting and listening to a horse eat,
because there is nothing else you can do
than listen to them eat.
Be in the moment.
You don't have to have anything,
you just have to be to have something.
I've learnt about joy.
It's here - it's deep, deep, deep inside me.
And all the crazy moments that we have
are moments that you can never, ever replace.
Don't race to get to the next point.
It's not about the destination.
It's about this amazing journey that we call life.
If I had to thank the horses in any way
for the love and the kindness,
it would be from my heart to their heart.
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