In a serious flirtation with Spring. We went to Palmer, Mass. today to visit our friends Pamela Richenback Moshimer and Paul Moshimer and the New York photographer Nina Gallicheva and the poet Doug Anderson. There were various artists and photographers and horse lovers – and we all met supporting the New York Carriage Horses –  at Blue-Star Equiculture, an organic farming center and work horse rescue and research farm.

All of us horse and animal lovers, all of us drawing fire for various reasons for our beliefs, all of us loving each other and happy to be in the company of good outcasts, our community and tribe, I am discovering. All creative people, loving people, honest people.

I am deeply touched watching Maria’s growing connection to horses, it is a part of her life now, her art and her spiritual life. This is something we are beginning to share, although I am drawn by the horses to write about their plight and message, she is drawn to know them, perhaps to live here with one.

Pamela and Paul have become good friends, they are deeply spiritual people and have done so much good for animals. Good friends are nourishing in so many ways. I’ll write more about this later and post some photos.

Spring was flirting with us all day, in between frigid winds and snow squalls, the temperature made it up to the high 30’s, the sun came out. Maria gave Paul and Pamela a beautiful quilt she made as a wedding present.