Screening of 'Mad Cowboy'
When:
Sunday, November 22ndTime:
7:00pmWhere:
Aqus Cafe, 189 H Street, Petaluma (corner of 2nd & H St.)Cost:
Free ($4.00 donation suggested)THE STORY (excerpt): "One day, Howard Lyman found himself in a hospital bed confronted with the very real possibility that he would spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. A tumor on his spine, a one-in-a-million chance of its surgical removal gave him sufficient pause to reflect on what it was that really mattered to he and his wife, Willow Jeane. Howard's "dark night of the soul" liberated him from then on. He saw that he had been caught on a vicious treadmill that was destroying everything he believed in: his parents' organic farm, the animals, the trees, the grass, his marriage, his livelihood, and his health. At over 300 pounds, this former football player had assumed that heavy animal protein, lots of greasy yellow fat, was essential to his well being. But now, from his hospital room, staring at the obese, self-doubting human being that Howard Lyman had become, he awakened to a more conscious way of thinking. He vowed to turn around his life, and his ranch."
The journey led him into the world of organic agriculture, veganism (vegetarianism plus no dairy or eggs), politics (he nearly won a House seat), undermined at the last minute by a bank that deliberately co-opted Montana's most visible vegetarian), and his discovery, early on, of a disease new to history called bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE, or mad-cow."
Cafe will be open for beverage purchases.
