A Day at the Auction

"Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs,
Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses,

Their pangs of love, with other incident throes
That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain
In life's uncertain voyage,

I will some kindness do them."

-Shakespeare

Horses overcrowded in a small corral at the livestock auction yard. 9/7/06

There were to frightened Burros crowded in with these horses. The Burros were shaking from fear.
We counted 10 horses in this 12'X12' corral.

One of the Burros trying to find some more room to squeeze into. 9/7/06

This sweet horse went to the killers. 9/7/06

No room to move. These two sweet faced horses went to slaughter. 9/7/06

Three beautiful and healthy geldings, two were 6 years old and the third was 5 years old.
All went to the Killer. 9/7/06

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"I looked over Jordan and what did I see,
Comin' for to carry me home

A band of angels comin' after me,
Comin' for to carry me home."

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch,
a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,
or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
- Leo Buscaglia

"A kind word is like a spring day."
-Russian proverb

 

"Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand."
-Bodie Thoene

"Indifference is the essence of inhumanity."
-George Bernard Shaw

 

"You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it."
-Lucy Larcom, American poet (1826-1893)

"If there is any kindness I can show,
or any good thing I can do to any being,
let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it,
as I shall not pass this way again."
-William Penn