I have kids.

I have grand kids.

I have emotions, feelings and thoughts of my own.

I seem to have read entirely different meaning from "Matt said No".

It was stated that there were two calves in the field owned by a beautiful person who was ill that Julia evidently identified with and cared about. Some one whom she had compassion and respect for and looked up to as a friend and fellow human being stumbling down the road of life.

Matt and the calf he named "Mumunia" see more seemed to have an immediate connection, a bonding, an attraction to each other. Positive Vibes instantly flowed freely between them.

There is no further mention of the second calf and the story focuses on the immediate bonding between Mumunia and Matty.

I have had that kind of bonding with animals and people (especially babies) and I cherish those moments that come along quite unexpectedly when two beings share a definite connection. I can identify with the positive vibes and unspoken communication of love and respect that pass between them.

A very special feeling that seems to happen more with children than adults because children are more receptive, innocent and their minds are not cluttered with the stress of every day life and myriads of thoughts and worries that flood an adult's mind.

Children have not yet learned to worry about taxes, dolphin bugs, deadlines, schedules or the morality of eating little handy sausages.

Mumunia and Matty are friends brought together by chance. They enjoyed each other's company for a time and missed each other when their time was up because they shared that special bonding.

A bonding that evidently didn't include the second calf.

Andrew, I think you are right about children "knowing what is right" and then adults come along and screw up the childrens' minds and teach them to be people they might not become on their own.

This doesn't pertain only to vegetarianism or personal choices, but to their ability to be open minded and perceptive of the vibes around them.

Young children are accepting of other ideas.

They are in awe of everything around them and they absorb this wondrous world with out prejudice or question. They are positive beings who look for similarities and thrive on the love and goodness of the world.

They have to learn negative thought processes like guilt, envy, jealousy or other vices.

Matty, would you want to eat Mumunia? NO!

Of course not. Mumunia is Matty's friend!

For Matty the question didn't conjure up visions of handy little sausages or heated debates over the virtues of vegetarian life versus eating meat.

Matty loves Mumunia unconditionally.

He doesn't need a reason, it just happened naturally.

Any other inferences conjured up by his answer of "No!" are purely our own adult minds extrapolating what we think he meant.

We here at Unity need to take a lesson from Matty.

We need to learn to have an open mind and learn to be in awe of the world around us. To remove the clutter of worry, and debate from our minds.

No need to translate the love of a boy for his new calf friend into any philosophical analogy of the meaning of life.

I have Native American Chickamaugua Cherokee blood (Paint Clan) running through my veins as well as many other European nationalities.

Cherokee People eat meat. They farm. They gather from the woods. They know medicinal plants and roots and tree barks. They live at one with mother nature.

Cherokee do not believe in killing any thing unless you ask it's permission and bless it first. Cherokee people believe that everything in mother nature is sacred.

My Cherokee grandmother lived to be 94 years old, she was a vegetarian and lived a long happy life, but most of all she was a beautiful person who did not judge others harshly, she had no underlying agendas or dramas in her life.

The one thing about my grandmother that remains first and foremost in my mind was her ability to love unconditionally.

She possessed what Matty possesses: She had the ability at 94 to have an open mind and heart and be receptive to all of the positive things around her.

I admire Matty's ability to be at one with a little calf.

Matty is the poster child for what I think Unity should be all about. Positive open and accepting.

I hope no adult changes him unintentionally by trying to translate his innocence into some complicated formula for life.

We all need to calm ourselves and rid our minds of all of this extraneous bullshit going through this post and become like Matty.

Who knows what "Mumunia" we might be missing in our lives while we set arguing?