For a horse with mental issues, in the family of Essential Oil products is one of a molecular structure so small as to pass through the blood-brain barrier and aid in overcoming trauma that has affected connections of electrical fields related to the natural flow of emotions, said Georgette Bloom who recently conducted a Saturday seminar at David Bynum’s stables.
Regular as the Bynum Place looks, it’s not every barn on the landscape of East Texas country society draws women like the circle Mr. Bynum joined to hear Mrs. Bloom. She’s certified as an instructor in the use of Essential Oils by the Center of Aromatherapy Research and Education.
A week earlier, coming from Manchester England, a doctor of philosophy who is one of 40 living farriers belonging to the Fellowship of the Worshipful Company of Farriers conducted a workshop that drew farriers from a hundred miles to the Bynum Place.
Dr. Courtney Durrum cools down daughter Rita’s pony after a Saturday morning running barrels in the family roping arenaComing from Larose on the bayous south of New Orleans, Luke Dufrene moved to Texas, married Sara and saw his fortunes turn the day he started shoeing horses.
“I wanted to do something for the friends who were there when I needed them,” said Luke Dufrene, a farrier down for 12 weeks in the wake of a rodeo accident. It happened in a flash.
Cinching up atop a Trampoline Buckin’ Bull Dad never before ridden to the buzzer, 6-year-old, 60-pound Bronco Buster Olivia rode rugged Luke Dufrene to the mat with a pair of herniated discs.
Still moving but numb from the neck down, after running him through an MRI and studying the film, the doc told the French-Cajun transplant Texan not to lift anything heavier than a fork for 12 weeks if he wanted to keep moving in the future.
It seems horses affect committed horse people, bend conventions, and deepen convictions connecting them in ways that go without saying. With something over 40 regular clients and north of a hundred head of horses on the 100-mile radius he works around home, those who’d be competitors in any other field wouldn’t take a dime for taking care of Mr. Dufrene’s customers.
Those at the conference concerning horses and the use of therapeutic oils are: Sarah Osteen, Laura Rucker, Diane Appleman, Georgette Bloom, Rita Durrum, Kate Osteen, Evon McDonald, Jennifer Schneider, Dalton Durrum, David Bynum and Dr. Courtney Durrum
“I knew about this farrier in England and I’d wanted to do something like this anyway,” Mr. Dufrene said. He said instead of competition, there’s a sense of camaraderie about farriers, a bond.
The rules of the business become apparent to anybody who stays in the business.
“You do good work, take care of your customers’ horses and you’ll stay just as busy as the next guy,” he said.
Coming from England, Dr. Mark Caldwell comes from the oldest line of the trade’s traditions.
“One of the reasons I wanted him to come, they do things a little different over there,” Mr. Dufrene said. “He’s one of 40 living members of the Fellowship of the Worshipful Company of Farriers. It’s the oldest order there is.”
Vernon Jogie came up from Palestine. At 23 he’s got a family and makes a living as his own boss.
“I learned from a neighbor,” he said. “The first horse I shod took me two days.”
He does in an hour what took two days then.
“When I was a senior, we had an FFA event where we got to ride horses to one of the elementary schools,” he said. “There was a farrier who came and when I told him I’d shod the horse I was riding he looked at my work and said I could apprentice with him. The day after I graduated, I started going with him.”
Growing up a Bynum on the Bynum place, Dr. Courtney Durrum doesn’t remember a time when she didn’t ride. With older brother Matthew and younger sister Robin, horses turned them to cowboys and Indians in the woods and fantasy rodeo stars in David’s roping arena.
“I was barrel racing in the fifth grade,” she said. Her 6-year-old daughter, Rita, has already won her first buckle.
“We lived for that stuff,” Dr. Durrum said. “Goat tying, team roping, calf roping, barrel racing – anything horseback.”
Summer Saturday mornings are for horses.
The day the Englishman came started with a family Dr. Durrum invited out.
Manchester England’s Dr. Mark Caldwell shapes a horseshoe as his host Luke Dufrene watches. Connected by horses, unconventional crowds gather at David Bynum’s barn.
“The Brooks family,” she said. “I wanted them to come out and be around horses some because they live in the country and have five kids and Bernie the Bolt’s gotten too old to rope.”
Bernie the Bolt, she said, is too old to compete but just the right age for a family with five children. Horses like attention and Bernie needed a retirement home – perfect match.
“I’m giving him to them,” she smiled, satisfied with that.
Remember Essential Oils? Electrical fields and the natural stream of emotions? Also the natural streams of movement. Also the voiding of toxins. Also dissolving pain.
Cut from the classic mold of that East Texas landscape of country life, David Bynum threw his grit newspaper route horseback when he was a kid in Cookville. The day he spoke to the crowd coming to hear Mrs. Bloom at his stables, he said from the time he was 18 and into adult years, he had daily blinding headaches.
“For years I lived with a medicine chest full of pharmaceuticals,” he said.
His daughter the society chiropractor adjusted him, taught him the use of therapeutic oils.
The headaches and the pharmaceuticals are both gone, he said.
