EQUAMORE’S COMMITMENT
Winter is a melancholy time, with the days growing steadily shorter and the nights steadily longer until the winter solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year. Perhaps that’s why our most joyous holidays take place after the fall equinox: Halloween, the Day of the Dead, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Year’s Eve. On these days, we renew family and friendship ties and celebrate the past, always with an eye to the future: to the rebirth of hope and happier, lighter days to come.
Equamore Foundation celebrates hope and renewal every time we give a horse sanctuary. In the cold winter of many horses’ lives, when starvation, abuse, or neglect extinguish the light in their eyes, Equamore intervenes, and there is a restoration of health, a rebirth of confidence, and a rekindling of the ability of each horse to look outward. Each time we see that light reflected again in a horse’s soft and luminous eye, we renew this vow:
Bryant:
Can you be there for me?
We’ll be there.
We’ll be all around in the dark – We’ll be everywhere.
Wherever you can look – wherever there’s a fight against cruelty, we’ll be there.
Wherever there’s a rider treating a horse like an insensate and disposable tool, we’ll be there.
We’ll be there in the way horses buck when they’re mad.
We’ll be there in the way foals dig in to their mother’s bellies when they’re hungry.
And when horses are with their own kind, when they’re at pasture and living safe and secure from hunger, abuse, and neglect –
We’ll be there, too.
