I believe that love and connection are the two most powerful and animating forces for human beings. Sometimes, I don’t understand this drive it seems twisted to me – the “left” and the “right.” People are driven to label themselves to find their tribes, to connect to one another, yet our world makes it harder and harder to do, as the corporations that now control our country and government increasingly hide behind inhuman and unyielding software programs. Every time a human being makes a connection with another, or with an animal, the motivating instincts of humanity are affirmed. Here in the country, on our farm, I see this every day in the remarkable connection of my wife – to me, to the animals that she so loves and that so love her.

Her love of Rocky the blind pony – was a celebration of the best parts of us and of the loving side of the human spirit. And the most loving thing she ever did was letting him go.