Alive

For some reason I have not been able to successfully blog since, well a long time ago. Never fear, I have been blogging all along but I have yet to post them all. Although I really want to just post the remaining blogs from the last two weeks of the project, I am very hesitate to unless they are perfect. I promise by Monday that the entire missing two weeks will be up. As for the aftermath of the project, well that will be up shortly as well. Briefly, I no longer have chickens or goats. And having come back to school I am faced with the question of, "what is my product?" I DO NOT KNOW. When I started this project I wanted it to be a learning experience for myself on how to live with animals and I wanted to show others that we need from them as much as they need from us. Ideally, I want people to believe that animals are just as important, if not more, to this world than we are and we have to work together to save the wonders of this planet. But the research that I started off doing was all on the emotions of animals and their societies. I did this because I figured that the only way I would really get to understand my goats and chickens would be by really connecting with them instead of imposing myself as their "master." This was due to me believing that animals are just as emotional and conscious as humans. But now I think that they are even more in touch with their emotions than we are. What people always refer to as animal behavior is actually animals acting on their emotions, so I think. We tend to think things through and rationalize all our actions, while animals act on pure emotional instinct.
As the question of my product came up, I, for some reason, immediately jumped back wanted to do something with animal's emotions. I do not want to write a paper, not because I don't like to write but because I want my product to be engaging and educational for all levels of understanding. I want to do something that incorporates sustainability, animals, and their emotions.
At the start of the week I had no direction at all as to what I wanted to do, but once I talked to Patty and my mentor they helped guide my thoughts and I realized that what I really want to do is show people that animals are just as "human" as we are. How am I going to go about this beats me.