The Rose

‘Well, what are you going to decide’, Epo-Na asked lazily.
She had picked me up from the hospital in the morning so that I could get some fresh air, and now we were resting on the frozen ground. She was lying with her legs tucked in, and I had nestled myself between her legs, idly playing with one of her hoofs.
‘Decide what’, I asked, not very interested. I was watching the foals romping around in the distance and wished that I could romp with them, but I guessed that was out of the question for a long time to come.
‘Decide whether you are going to be a poor-me-baby, or something more interesting’, she answered.
I sat up sharp.

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Balls

After a while Epo-Na decided we should go to the little river that ran through the fields. We both bent over the water, and as I was drinking I saw my face reflected in the clear water. Next to my face was the reflection of the face of Epo-Na, beautiful and serene as ever.
‘You see, ‘ she started softly, looking up and dripping water all over by back, ‘at the root of almost everything in the lives of human animals is fear. We also know fear, but only at the moment we sense a predator in the neighbourhood, and even then we ‘sense’ if he is out for dinner or just going for a stroll. Our fear is about real things, things that threaten our lives. The fear of human animals is for the most part fear of things that are in their heads, which do not particularly threaten their lives, but are projections of things that are not there.

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More about Balls

In-between my intense activities of trying to bend an unbendable leg and learning to walk up and down stairs, I kept thinking of balls, and how human animals always seem to divide them into two piles: the good ones and the bad ones. Then there are also the ones in the middle that are neither good not bad (in the eyes of human animals). We always divide the world in two: good-bad, black-white, up-down, left-right, etc..

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The Brain Heart Connection

I had been home for a week now picking up the bits and pieces of my life and gluing them back together again, but today I decided to take a stroll in the fields to see what the herd was doing. I also had some important questions to ask Epo-Na.
It was a drizzly day, and the herd was standing under the trees, their wet coats shining in the early morning light, and there was a quietness that only happens on those drizzly lazy days.
Epo-Na smiled when she saw me coming, and said: ‘There must be some V.I.P. in your mind to come here so early in this weather.’ I remembered that V.I.P. meant a Very Important Problem, but since I had decided that the word ‘problem’ should be scrapped from my dictionary, I told her that after our last conversation I had decided to change the word ‘problem’ into ‘ball’, so the V.I.P had become a V.I.B., or Very Important Ball.

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Tsunami

I woke up in the middle of the night with the most horrendous heart palpitations I have ever experienced. I knew it was the end of me, that I was going to die. Epona would come for me and take me. So I spent the night waiting, refraining myself with all my force from calling the ambulance. I did not want to die in the hospital.
Finally things cooled off a little and I got up in the morning, feeling I had gone through one of the worst roller coaster times of my life. Going around the house like a drunken sailor I waited for the rest of the world to get up.
Later on a friend, who was staying with me, went to have a coffee in the village. When he came home, he brought me the news: Japan had been hit by the worst earthquake in its history and consequently by the worst tsunami.

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