If anyone doubts the meaning of the horses to human beings, or their ability to call out to us, they should come and see the big horses of Blue Star, who came to Bedlam Farm last weekend. People cried at the very sight of them, they came to touch them, look at them, listen to stories about them.

I should say that these are the horses that many people in America believe should be banned from our cities and towns, and hidden away in rescue preserves or sent to slaughter, they say they have no place in our crowded and distracted world. These horses remind of us what they have meant to people, something Native-Americans know but most Americans have forgotten, or perhaps never known.

Horses helped build our world, they have guided and saved countless people, our history is interwoven with theirs, the bond they have forged with people exists today, everyone who came near them saw it.

Pamela Rickenbach is a prophet carrying this message to the world – keep the horses among us, find work for them to do, do not banish them or send them away to oblivion or slaughter. We are at a crossroads, these animals are vanishing from the earth, and everywhere they work and live among us, they and the people who keep them are under assault, relentlessly harassed and persecuted and accused of crimes.

I asked one person after another: do these gentle and sentient beings deserve to be banned from the company of human beings, driven from our cities and towns, isolated from the everyday lives of people? No one said yes.

The Blue Star is is the future of animals, to love them, to love people, to remind us that we must live in harmony or perish together. Many people no longer seem to believe in a happy or hopeful future, they are awash in fear and anger and violence, they have abandoned our home, the earth. It sometimes is difficult to pause and recover our sense of a depth and meaning in life.

The horses remind us to broaden our vision, renew our hope, recover our spiritual memory and our past. These horses and the people who flocked to them are fellow creatures of this world, they enjoy a life of purpose and happiness, they are entitled to their unique dignity. They are connected to us in ways most of us cannot understand. They cry out to continue theory their work with us, and not be abandoned in the rush to greed and argument and distraction.