• Introduction by Eva Dusil • Editing by Gabriel Dusil • 2014 November
• The first two years of middle school were hard on me. We learned about farming, agriculture, and how to work the land. But my studies had little to do with animals, and that demotivated me. I was immature and undisciplined. It also aggravated my teachers, and subsequently upset my mother. She frequently had to come to school to smooth things over. I was bored with sitting in class when all I wanted to do was be on the farm. By the third year I found my calling since we were finally allowed to spend time on the school’s farm. I loved to be around the horses. I befriended one of the shepherds and many of the farmers. I was in my element, but quickly learned that the horses were not bred for the aristocratic activities that I had imagined. Instead, once they were mature they were sold to co-ops for farm labor.
• One summer my father kept pestering my mother, asking why I was spending so much time on the farm. He didn’t know what I was doing, or even if I was lying about my whereabouts. Most teenagers my age spent their days at the city pool. I did as well, but then went to the farm in the afternoon. By this time my father had retired. My mother eventually had enough of his nagging and told him to go see for himself. So he dressed up elegantly and accompanied me on this one and only visit to the farm. It was the closest he had ever come to such a grassroots lifestyle. When we arrived he talked to the farm employees and I showed him how I taught a mare to kneel, rear up on her hind legs, and kick on command as I tickled her rump. He was amused and it satisfied his curiosity. Then he watched as I disappeared into the distance on my dappled horse. My father had an excellent sense of humor so it became a running joke, among family and friends, that his daughter was more interested in four legged animals than the two legged kind.
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Gabriel Dusil • Time Is Relentless 
Hello Gabi!
I found your blogs and pictures online and a flood of memories came back. You may not remember me but I remember you as a child and you will perhaps recall my father.
Your dad first, and then mom, worked for my father at the animal hospital west of Brampton.
I have wonderful memories of your parents, their apartment, the Skoda, going to judo, and getting together with your uncles and cousins at Rockwood Conservation Area. I was the second youngest of the five Arnott boys and, in my memory, the one who spent the most time in the animal hospital.
In any case, a good part of a lifetime has passed since and I thought I should say hello and wish you well.
Also, somewhere in boxes I have one or two pictures from back in 1971, I believe. I recall one of your father checking the ears of a black cat and one of your parents and you in front of the clinic. I will search for these as they might interest you.
Best regards to you, Gabi! ( I never knew you as Gabriel.)
Kevin
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Hi Kevin, it’s great to hear that these posts brought back memories. I wish I had more photos from the Brampton clinic, so it’s awesome to hear that you have some of those treasures. We can talk further by email if you want: dusilg@gmail.com.
I also wish you well. Thanks for the great comment 💪
Gabi
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