Whirling

Oh my goodness my head is still whirling from the events of the day and everything went according to plan but then some things didn't and I am just so mad at Barry the Barn Cat now and I have done everything I can to control my temper all day and not blow up at him in front of everyone.

I have to be calm.

I have to remember that even though Barry did what he did today that overall everything went very well.

The cows were perfect and they kept the man and the woman busy for a long time. The stump looked very very nice and there was room for everyone to crowd around and there was much tittering and chirping and talking and the chickens were running underfoot this way and that and everywhere you looked you saw the chickens.

Herman, the old Boar, he's the oldest animal on the farm, sat at the back and said very little but I could see him nodding at some of the things I was saying when I was giving my speech and he has not come to talk to me since but I think I should go and see him as I am curious about what his thoughts are about Barry and his antics.

Barry introduced me and then he did, the thing that he did which I will tell you about soon, and then I was in shock at what he had said but I overcame my shock and I hopped up on the stump and to my surprise the animals of the farmyard were stomping and cheering for me and I think I heard a boo and it sounded like a chicken but overall they were happy to see me and I started to speak.

I started to tell them that I have a connection to the outside world and I did not go into details because the next thing you know they will all be lining up to try and use the computer at night or they will steal my cellphone and so I just said that I have a connection and I have learned some things that affect so many of us.

US.

That's right, I said US and I said more words to that effect and I said that to many of the humans we are not separated like we think of ourselves on the farm. Here, to each other, we say the sheep are over there and the cows are over there and the turkey is there, but to many humans we are not sheep and cows and turkey we are one thing and that one thing is food.

I shared with them the statistics and I think it was lost because, for example, there are sixteen chickens on the farm and that is the most out of any animal and so the animals have a concept of how many sixteen is but when I start using words like "billion" it sounds like a made up number but because I know so many words and I have been practicing my communication skills so much I think they believed me when I said it was more than any number we can count to.

I also said that humans are good and that I have met many of them from the outside world and if they want to eat us that is one thing but I do not want to fight them because, first of all, I think we would lose, but second of all violence never solves anything and if we want to see any change we need to find a way to communicate with them better.

WE.

I used WE and US a lot and at the end of my speech, with Barry moving around in the corner of my eye, I said the words just like I had been practicing them all week.

I said:

"We are the farmyard. We are all different. We eat different foods and we speak different languages but together we make up this farmyard. This farmyard is what is in trouble, it's not just you, and you and you..." and I nodded my head in the direction of each person each time I said the word "you".

"You are you, but you are also a part of US, and we have a duty to help each other and to dictate our own fate."

"We are the farmyard," I repeated, and then I learned a trick from google and I did that trick and I said "Repeat after me... We are the farmyard." and they repeated and I said it again and they repeated and I said it a third time and they repeated and then they said it a fourth time without me and I cannot tell you that it was the happiest I have ever been in my life.

Petunia came around the corner just then and gave us the sign to get back to our places as the milking machine cleanup was all done and the man and the woman were coming back soon and everyone scurried this way and that but I could hear them all saying "we" "we" "we" and I think if I was to judge the success of my speech it is that fact right there that makes me think it was successful.

But Barry... there is still the fact of Barry that I have to deal with.

I will tell you more tomorrow. It is late and today has been a big day.

Good news before bad always and the good news is that my speech today was, dare I say it, pretty darn great.