The news from Ken Norman and Eli is good..sort of. Eli had a tough weekend but finally has her cast set properly and is more comfortable.  Ken said Eli spent last month putting ice on his new knees, this weekend he put ice on her broken left wrist. You good and generous people raised nearly $5,000 in two days –  what Ken said he needed – over the weekend for Ken and Eli and their farm and family get through this additional crisis.

I talked to Ken this afternoon and he said the gofundme effort has once again been astonishingly successful. They have enough money now to hire people to care for their farm and horses until he and Eli both recover – he has a couple of months of rehab, Eli has about 6 to 8 weeks for her new injuries to stabilize. I don’t know if she will need surgery or not.

He is immensely grateful for the support you gave to him, his family and his animals in the past week, he doesn’t think he needs any more money right now.  His fund stands at $37,970. Ken is by no means rich but he says he has enough to get through this, that is a relief.  This is perhaps the first time in Ken’s life that he has asked anyone for help, and this has been a profoundly happy and affirming exercise. I can’t thank all of you enough, people are so willing to do good given the chance.

We are going to visit Ken and Eli as soon at is stops snowing and take some photos.

Ken has worked hard all of his life, and in good causes, he has given more than he will ever receive. It is touching and beautiful for me to see this, it is the kind of story that is not considered news in our curious world, it is a huge story, symbolic and uplifting and important.

Thank you all, as winter fights and kicks but begins to wind down, this is a beam of light and color and compassion, the world needs it and will feel it. Such love and generosity brightens the world and shows us the way.  It reminds us what it means to be human. Good people are a powerful tribe, there are wonderful new tools that help us come together to be felt and heard.  You all did good for Ken, he and Eli are grateful, so am I.