C.R.E.A.T.E: - The “C†in CREATE -Celebrate Everything -Even Cow Manure!
Cow manure is disgusting and repulsive. Growing up in Wisconsin I was always aware of the black and white pretties. School trips took us to large farms that made our eyes water. Yet put yourself in farmers shoes – cow manure is an important source of fuel and fertilizer. So let’s celebrate that!
Stay with me now - to further celebrate COWS - They say fiber from processed and sterilized cow manure could take the place of sawdust in fiberboard, which is used to make everything from furniture to flooring to store shelves. Researchers say it “won’t smell†and it is a way to dispose of the 1.5 trillion to 2 trillion pounds of manure produced annually in the United States.
Hold on – there is one more point to make about cow manure… Maria Alicia Gaura, Chronicle Staff Writer from the San Francisco Chronicle reports that cows, despite their gentle demeanor and big brown eyes, present some troubling environmental challenges. A well-fed dairy cow produces 40,000 pounds per year per animal of manure every day, or. As a result of this seemingly unsolvable flaw of cows - Mr. Albert Straus, dairy farmer from California figured out a way to generate electricity from the manure of his 270 cows!!!!! All I can say is HOLY COW!
The “C†in CREATE –is Celebrate everything. My goodness if we can celebrate cow manure we are off to a great start! In the Power of Wisdom, Aman Motwane, states that nothing exists without opposite or complement. This is a first step in realizing the abundance that nature intended for you.
What does this mean for you? Aman Motwane goes on to say; in nature, everything exists because of its opposite. The North Pole exists because the South Pole exists. Without HOT there would be no cold., without black, no white; without weakness, no strength, without sadness, no joy; without failure, no success; without pain, no pleasure, without dark, no light.
It takes courage to begin celebrating your own weaknesses, mistakes, flaws and imperfections. Celebrate everything starting with your birth mark that adds sex appeal, your lisp that makes you memorable and endearing, and your over cluttered disorganized house that gives you flexibility and creativity – When you begin to put out your true authentic self out on display for others to see in a matter of fact way AND stop trying to control how others see you, it will draw others TO you and you will allow your true beauty to come to the surface.
Celebrate Everything? Are you wondering if I really mean everything? The answer is YES – the more you celebrate the more you will have to celebrate!
P.S. I wonder if cows think that their manure is a flaw. I doubt it. I wonder if the flaws we call our own…are really flaws at all? Most of them…I doubt it!
May 22nd, 2007 at 4:24 pm
I must admit that I attended 4 LOOPS this week and saw every possible response from the groups you could imagine when they were trying to eat while listening about the power of celebrating cow manure.
This example puts it all in perspective for me, Holy Cow, there is truly nothing we can’t celebrate if we look for the good in all. I challenge everyone to seek only the good in everyone and everything and watch how it changes your life.
See you in the LOOP,
Mike