TheBanyanTree: Keeping the faith...

[Pam North]

Ahhh... so very nicely expressed for so many of us Dee... thanks, and we'll
keep the mojo flowing!

Pam


On 5/21/06, Dee <dee.cee at verizon.net> wrote:
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> Yesterday's Preakness, the second jewel in the illusive Triple Crown,
> went almost instantly from joyous excitement to horror when Barbaro,
> fresh from his Kentucky Derby win, shattered bones in his right rear
> ankle about a hundred yards out of the starting gate.
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> Broken legs in horses are a lot more complicated than the same injury in
> humans. It is, as they say, the nature of the beast. For us, the injury
> would be, though painful, pretty much no more than inconvenient. For
> horses, it can be lethal, for a variety of reasons.
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> A lot of mojo is going out today from all around the world, I expect.
> That bay colt has picked up a huge following and we're all praying for
> him. As near as I can determine, he's in surgery as we speak, at what is
> apparently THE best place for it. If skill and prayers and his own fine
> spirit can do it, Barbaro will survive this.
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> The most recent report I could find (within this last hour) is also the
> most complete: http://tinyurl.com/rbxs4 It's also the most scarey...new
> details show the injury to be more complicated and extensive than
> originally reported.
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> On the one hand, you could feel this is an awful lot of fuss over a
> "mere" horse, especially when compared with all the people tragedies
> playing out every day. On the other hand, we need our heroes when things
> are dark, and athletes who display skill and heart above the ordinary
> fall naturally into the hero role. And it may be it's only our animal
> heroes we can safely admire because they won't let us down with hidden
> clay feet smeared across the news columns. We know that sometimes the
> people handling the animal might be venal and nasty but the animal is
> simply doing what he or she does best, and doing it with skill and style
> and great heart. We can put our faith in that, knowing we won't be
> disillusioned.
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> (I hasten to point out, I have no reason to believe Barbaro's people
> have ever treated him with anything but the greatest care. The above was
> simply an illustrative statement.)
>
> Hugs, Dee...keeping the faith...
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