Thou shalt fly without wings...

I've always been enamored with horses. From my first pony, to years on Tennessee Walking horse farm, to totem animals devined by a Druid over candlelight, my heart has always belonged to a horse. This weekend in Kentucky at the Derby and the Horse Park only cemented what my heart has known for years...when everything else in the world is wrong there is sense and order and peace in the presence of a horse. Nothing says is better than the Bedouin legend I read this weekend....

And the Creator took a
handful of the
Southern Breeze
blew His breath over it, and
created the horse.
He said to the magnificent
creature,
"I have made thee as no other.
All the treasures of the earth
lie between thy eyes.
Thou shall carry my friends upon
thy back.
Thy saddle shall be the seat
of prayers to me.
Thou shall fly without wings,
and conquer without any sword.
Oh, horse."
~ Bedouin Legend ~