Wow Helen, thanks for re-telling that story. First time reading, for me! And I agree with Amos -- the conscious, rational, reasoning human mind encounters limits and obstacles in it's ability to know. And thankfully, the conscious mind is not the only capacity human beings have for "knowing".

These 'other capacities' are, to date, not as well understood. Still, for anyone who knows what it's like to know (or have known) that which is commonly considered to be unknowable, these "other capacities" of are indisputable.

And fuel for (at least!) a lifetime's worth of investigation too. Even if that entails risk, and/or 'swimming against the current' at times. At least in my case.

See, that's where horses have it easier. They don't have to rack their brains examining or justifying or arguing or demonstrating or measuring or explaining just how or why they know what they know.

And they certainly don't struggle with if they should know what they know. Or fight about whether the horse in the next stall should or even does in fact know what they know.

Or berate or ridicule or condemn or fear or ostracize or otherwise humiliate other horses for knowing what they know.

Nope. Horses don't bother with any of that. They just go right ahead and quite blatantly know what they know.

Simple.

And so enviable too, it seems at times! :-)