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The Piebald Horses of the Wide Grass

14 min · Field and river · Comfort · Company

On a sunlit stretch of pampas, a child spends a long summer watching an old breeder who keeps only the spotted horses everyone else rejects, and slowly discovers that the markings which made them useless are precisely what makes each one known, findable, and loved.

Retold from Far Away and Long Ago, by W. H. Hudson.

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Also in the podcast episode The Road of Small Kindnesses.