You're Going to Be Dead One Day by David Horowitz

Author:David Horowitz [Horowitz, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781621574330
Publisher: Regnery Publishing

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July–August

Karma

April and I began living together in 1996, and once we were under the same roof, animals began appearing. I use this construction advisedly because I was not involved in their coming. First a dog named Barney; then a Maltese named Buddy, whom we called “Fat Man”; and a Shih Tzu named Molly, who rode in my lap to and from my radiation treatments for the prostate cancer that had leaked into my system. Then came Jake and Lucy and Lucky, who are with us still; and Winnie and Coco, who have only recently passed.

In the eighth year of our marriage we were living in Calabasas. April had begun riding a gorgeous paint named Alvin, who was boarded at a ranch in Agoura Hills, about twenty minutes away. Soon she was buying the horse, and then we were buying an acre-and-a-half ranch in the Santa Maria Valley so that Alvin could be with us all the time. As soon as we had acquired the ranch, April bought another horse named Diddy to be Alvin’s companion. No sooner had we settled into our new home than April began rescuing horses that people had abandoned. To help her, I used the Internet to set up a foundation, which she named Heart of a Horse, to raise money to fund her rescues. It did not take me long to realize that there was a powerful karma at work here that was changing our lives.

One day April took her mother, Mary, to the Saddle Rock Ranch where Alvin was boarded before we bought our homestead. While they were there, Mary told April a story she had never heard before. It was about a chestnut quarter horse named Brownie that Mary had been given as a little girl and whom she loved with a little girl’s passion. Her parents first sat her on the horse when she was only two years old, and as she grew she could be seen riding him all around the farm where they lived. One day when Mary was ten, she and her sisters were playing about the barn when Brownie turned her head suddenly and struck Mary in the face. A horse’s head is very hard and the blow knocked the child out. It was completely unintentional, but when her father found out he flew into an alcoholic rage and took the horse out in the field with his shotgun and killed her.

When the deed was done, Mary’s father refused to bury Brownie, and the carcass lay in the field for days. The next morning Mary went to sit with her dead friend. She sat there all day and cried. No one could get her to leave. Finally night came and the family went out and dragged her in. The next day she was out there again, hugging Brownie and crying. This went on until Mary’s mother finally forced her father to get the tractor and drag Brownie’s body to a far part of the field and bury her.

April was shocked to hear the story.

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