Just a quick thought before I dash off to Penn for a day of lectures by a vet who has "made a career" out of the emotions of animals." Do they feel pain? Do they understand trauma? When is enough enough? Should be fascinating although difficult to get to because I need to dig myself out of an icy driveway first....
A brief respite with the Today Show (and a cup of coffee) where Michael Smerconish, local radio guru and Maureen Faulkner, plug their new book about the murder of Maureen Faulkner's policeman husband, Danny Faulkner, by Mumia Abu Jamal, who has been sitting on death row for 26 YEARS!!!! Granted there are extenuating circumstances, but talk about a story that has more lives than a cat--26 YEARS--and people are protesting outside the Today Studios. Matt Lauer is all worked up. Clearly, there are people still interested in hearing her story.
26 YEARS. Does Barbaro have that kind of staying power?
I heard Maureen say that Michael has been with her for 15 years, listening and helping her tell her story. Did he have to put his name on the book to get it to sell? She also said that it was great therapy to get her life out in black and white.
26 YEARS. That's a long time to wait to publish your story and yet ironically, the 26 years has become a selling point.
Will anybody still care about Barbaro in 26 years and more importantly will I?
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Yes.
Never lose sight of your dream. Maybe that's what carried Barbaro down the stretch at Churchill to the longest margin of victory in, what, 60 years. Maybe we knew what lay ahead. Maybe he did. But for the eight months he hung in there after his tragic mis-step, Barbaro demonstrated pure class, grace under fire.
Through the work of Alex Brown and Tim Wooley's racing website, Barbaro showed the world that the internet, that god-forsaken wasteland of shopping and pagan anonymity, good people could find each other. Could find the truth in their hearts. People could be the change, could reach out past their keyboards and make the world a better place.
Barbaro's passion. Not a bad legacy for a horse who was in the public eye for less than a year. A President could only hope for so much.
-- Penn CW '72
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