Horses came into my life a few years ago in big and mysterious ways. First, a blind old pony led Maria and I to our new farm, guided us towards seeing it and buying it. Then the New York Carriage Horses entered my life, and called me, say some, to speak on behalf of their cause. They led me to Blue Star Equiculture in Palmer, Mass., an extraordinary place I believe to be the future of animals in our world and a healthy reincarnation of the lost dream of animal rights (not the same as human rights for animals.) Now, we have another horse of our own, Chloe.

Today at Blue Star, a big horse name Feather came over to speak with me, and we touched heads and we did speak to one another. The horses there want to know the people they see, and if you let them, they will talk to you in many different ways.

Blue Star is an important place in the sphere of animals in our world. They have found the new understanding we need there, they save and rescue animals, they help and support the people who love them. There are no secret informers at Blue Star, no judgment and harassment of people who live and work with animals.

They cherish the work horses and people have done they seek ways to keep the horses among us and find important work for them to do, work that helps people, helps the earth, saves the horses, not sends them away in blind ignorance. Blue Star is a sacred place, and sacred things happen there all the time.

Maria says there is a light in this photograph that she has not seen before, I think it is the sun reflecting off of her camera in the bright snow. There it is, the different ways of looking at the world. Maria wrote about it beautifully on her website tonight.