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June 22, 2007
A Boy and His Horse
There’s a photograph in The New York Times (June 21) showing a boy and his horse bathing in the Arges River outside of Bucharest, Roumania, which has been having a heat wave. The boy is half in and half out of the water playing with his horse, trying to mount it, and it’s a most beautiful sight. The boy is so at ease both with himself and with his horse and has obviously been raised from childhood to ride horses and work with them in the fields. It’s a photograph you want to imagine yourself into, as if you’re the boy cooling off with your beloved horse in the river on a hot spring day. You think back and wonder if you’ve ever been that comfortable with an animal and so close to nature. For me the answer is ‘’no.’’ As much as I love animals, I was raised in the city and never was able to establish such an intimate, natural relationship with wild life. This is something I will always miss.
When I look at that picture, I can fully imagine the boy’s joy and exuberance for life, and I wish, for a moment, that I could be him and feel so at ease with life as he seems to be.
When did you ever feel so close to nature that also made you happy and fulfilled?
Posted by billz at June 22, 2007 09:20 PM
