grounded

Hi All, I was outside filling the bird feeders on Monday morning around 7:15 am. I have 3 stations here so it takes a bit of time to amble from tree to tree filling up all the different feeders. For the squirrels there is one type, for the wood peckers another, and then lots of tube feeders for all the wild birds. It is very meditative and nice to be outside even with rain and frozen patches of snow. Any how I came in preparing to go to yoga when I heard the ringing of the telephone, ripping off my boots I ran for the phone. An agitated Lavender was asking "haven't you heard my messages? Seems one of the pregnant mares, Angie was down. When horses are about to give birth the will go down and roll a bit fromm side to side to help the process. The also go down for colic (the gut twists and the matter cannot pass) and roll around. I said " call the vet; "I will be up ASAP" Angie was calm and steadily working on getting her self better. I put one of my "healing cloths" over her back and put hands on her between her rolling fits. Due to some problems with the Vet's truck, she was late getting to the barn. Angie keept her concentrated focus up an kept up her up and down rolling...we began to realize that it wasn't colic but that she was aborting the foal. It would be too early to save the foal so that was sad...Angie however clearly knew what she needed to do and proceeded, calmly, without drama...I was struck by the whole process just how clear animals are. She knew the foal was dead so worked on "dumping" it before it caused problems to her body. The foal was so cute a tiny little horse looking more like a toy animal...the whole process had a beautiful feel to it, Angie was aligned with her truth and brought a calming peace to the passing of her foal.....Horses are such beautiful dignified animals, powerfully grounded, and wonderful teachers!