Today is "I Love Horses Day".
What is it that brings out our love for these magnificent animals anyway?
Is it their soft velvety noses gently touching your hand?
Maybe it is when you are feeling blue and your horse comes over and gently rests her nose on your shoulder or gently moves her lips against your neck, providing you the magical comfort that you so needed.
Maybe it is watching the giant draft horses in their shiny harnesses pulling a beautiful rig.
Or two foals racing around the field playing with one another.
Or is it that feeling when a horse with a traumatic past finally overcomes his fear and reaches out to touch you with his nose for the first time and takes that one tentative step toward you.
Could it be the feeling of raw power beneath you as you let your horse stretch out at a gallop in an open field?
I think horses have the ability to reach us at more of a spiritual level than most other animals. Their soft brown eyes contain a wisdom that cannot be explained. Watching them run at liberty fills us with a sense of awe.
Horses have the ability to reach a place deep within us that not many other creatures can touch. Perhaps that is why children with autism or people who have suffered immense trauma can relate to well to them.
For some they signify freedom, beauty and strength.
Maybe it is their sheer size, their shiny coats.
Whatever it is, it is undeniable.
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