On earning trust

what I learned from horses

There’s a scene in the 1944 film National Velvet when Violet Brown (played by a very young Elizabeth Taylor) is just sort of gazing off in the distance and saying to herself, “Horses,” in the same tone you’d imagine most teenagers would say the name of some dreamy movie star. For Velvet, horses are romance epitomized and she cannot fathom her older sist…