Understanding...a story of horses facilitating healing

Artist: Jenny Watts

Three women wait quietly outside the paddock holding a large bay mare.  The youngest of the women sits in the far corner of the paddock on the top rail of the black board fence; her crystal-blue eyes watch the mare intently.  A middle-aged woman with fiery red hair and deep green eyes stands with her arms folded across her chest, leaning her left shoulder against one of the thick, wooden fence posts.  Near the paddock gate, a slender woman with long, grey hair and multi-colored eyes watches the bay mare closely from her tattered old folding lawn chair. 

Inside the paddock, the mare circles restlessly, working her soft, black muzzle back and forth along the ground.  Her large belly swings gently side-to-side as she moves about the enclosure.  She stops to paw at the ground, her sharp, heavy hoof sending clods of dirt and bits of grass flying out behind her.   Looking up from her pawing, the mare snorts loudly and shakes her graceful head. She looks at the woman sitting on the fence; flaring her nostrils she blows out a deep breath before she begins circling once again... MORE