http://www.auburnpub.com/articles/2007/01/30/news/sports/sports05.txt
Today began with a terribly sad shock as I learned the news of Barbaro's final chapter from a friend who very thoughtfully sent me an email to let me know she was thinking about me...and unwittingly broke the news to me with her kindness. While today has been a perfectly pleasant, successful, busy day -- including a much better 2nd visit to the Delhi domestic airport (the business lounge made a huge difference) -- I am really just so very sad and of course it makes me feel very far away from home to not have anyone to share my grief. Much to my surprise, and disappointment, there hasn't been a word about Barbaro on any of the international news stations and it seems that horseracing is not a sport that the Indians follow. While we all knew he was fighting against the odds, it just seems so cruel that he'd come so close to going home to have things go so wrong, so quickly after he'd fought so valiantly for so long. It may sound weird, but I really feel his absence. Today's photo is from the lobby of my hotel here in Chandigarh -- I probably would have snapped it anyway but it sure felt like a memorial when I walked in this afternoon.
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