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Sunshine Memories |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa 
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SUNSHINE MEMORIES 17 July 2003 Moments around a truck packed high and wide and long with fine, fat bags of shavings this morning in the sun on my way to work had me strangling my tears as I saw you again happy glowing in the sunshine standing in deep clean shavings at your home stables - and at Auntie Leskin’s - and the in-between ones - and at various away ones during the Yearling Sales - and your warmth and love and happiness flooded my memories with hot-teared gratitude to all those many, many who knew and loved you and were responsible for your wonderful happy cared-for life. Owl |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Warm wishes to you. Hold those memories forever, they will always comfort you. Good to see you posting, Diana. |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
"Sunshine Memories" to warm a heart forevermore...  Love Linda xo |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you Kacy, and how I need those memories! I hope I never lose my memory, because then I wouldn’t have those to cling on to. Thank you Linda. Yes, they are so essential to me. Owl |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
So deeply touching, dear Diana! Most beautiful lines you share here. I especially love "hot-teared gratitude" ... Love, Margherita |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you Margherita for your deep understanding. Owl |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
I think the key word in this is "happy"... *S* It's a gift to us to know our friends are happy... and that gift doesn't ever leave us, even during the missing. *S* |
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Poetal Member
since 2009-11-09
Posts 74Texas, United States |
I Loved this one because we have had horses in our life and loved them all. I have many fond memories of {stables and stalls and ponies that came to our loving calls.}  Thanks for the great read. AL Inmon |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you Ruth. Yes, Flicka was/is/always will be the epitome of Love and Happiness and it was/is/always will be so obvious to everyone. Thank you Poetal. Then you can begin to know how Flicka fills my heart. He was ours/mine for 20½ years and my children and I knew him and rode him for 2 years before he was ours. He was 37½ when he went to Heaven, and his vet and his headgroom went there before him and I know they will have met him at Heaven's gate, just as he meets every animal, and the special people. Owl |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
You are lucky to have had such a special friend and such happy memories, Diana Ida |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Oh boy! Ida, you are so right I was/am/always will be so LUCKY, LUCKY, LUCKY! I don't know why I was blessed with the most wonderful horse in the world of all time and for 20½ years after knowing him and riding him, along with my children, for 2 years before that. In Life he sustained me and was my comfort in my sorrows and celebrated my joys, and continued to do so from Heaven, but he is also now my Guardian Angel. As painful as it is to have missed him every day for 8½ years, I bask in the memories and the cloud messages he sends me every day and the daily chats I have with him. However, there are times, as described in this poem, when an unexpected event jerks a realisation of the fact that those memories can never be reality again, and the enormity of that is almost too much to bear. Owl |
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