Thank you so much everyone.
I am recovering and went back to work yesterday. Life goes on.
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It does go onā¦ but the memories and heartache remain with youā¦ (((HUGS)))
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@SuzieQNutter and @Graymaresrule, I am so sorry to read of your bad luck, and wish both of you much better times ahead.
@Knights_Mom Can I be your plus one?
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Itās a date!!
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A lot has happened for me - most notably in August 2019 my older daughter was just about to start grade 10, today she is getting ready to leave for university in a few weeks.
In August 2019 I had just found a pleasure / semi-retirement home for my gelding and was enjoying the first few weeks of ownership of a horse of a lifetime for me. I could never have afforded a horse of her quality, but I bought her at age 22 for a song. She helped me learn things and feel things I had only dreamed of. Six or seven months later, the gelding had to be put down after a neurological condition worsened. And just over a year after getting my mare, I lost her suddenly and horrifyingly to a strangulating lipoma. 2020 was a horrible year and not just because of Covid. Happily the opportunity to lease another wonderful aged schoolmaster fell in my lap later in the fall of 2020, and in the fall of 2021 I bought him. I know we wonāt have long to do dressage together, but hopefully he has many more years of snuggles and hacks to enjoy.
In August 2019 my parents were both remarkably fit and healthy for their age (80 and 79). They both enjoyed travel and my father kept busy in retirement by writing several books. Today itās been 8 months to the day since he passed away and my mother is a shell of her former self, in the midst of a major mental health crisis and convinced she is a helpless invalid, even though there is nothing wrong with her physical body.
In August 2019 I was splitting my time between two part time office jobs while also doing freelance writing, editing, and social media management work in my āspareā time. In theory this allowed me a flexible schedule to be there for my kids and even squeeze in some riding time, but in reality I felt like I was in work mode 24/7 and never able to really focus on one task or enjoy down time without checking emails or trying to multitask work while out with the kids. A few months later I left one of the part time jobs for a full time opportunity at the other one. The pay is terrible but the work is fulfilling, my coworkers are wonderful, the hours are flexible, and itās a 15 minute walk from my house, so I feel like I have a much better balance in my life.
In August 2019, my husband and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary. Our 23rd is a couple of weeks away now. 3 years doesnāt sound like much but those naive pre-Covid days feel like a lifetime ago. I can only imagine how long those years feel for MB and everyone involved in that tragedy.
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Or perhaps everyone could not reiterate the same stuff over and over again. Do we really need another thread arguing the minutest detail of what NGRI does and does not mean? Speculating what actually happened on that fateful day, and defending the actions of a pair of self-confessed lying drug addicts who set out to ruin someoneās life?
Iām all for discussing MBs current situation but the pedantic rehashing of the same stuff over and over again by the same two or three posters is really tired.
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I feel so sad for everyone!! Please know Iāll be saying a prayer for you all that have suffered. Your stories break my heart.
For those who have had goodness and light Iāll pray for even more of the same for you.
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To me, it would be even nicer if people could comment on the trial and not make snide side remarks about other posters or a shooting victim. Every thread has started with a veneer of new information or a feinted ruse of another topic but it all slides down to complaining about posters, name calling, amateur psycho-analysis, and bashing LK.
How about talking about good training videos of MB, videos of people he trained, first hand accounts of being at his clinics? That seems a much healthier way to show the love.
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Feel free to start a thread to support each other and share personal updates in the OT forum. Weāre closing this thread as itās reinvigorating a topic we just closed.
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