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Inspiration
Be a humming bird…
“One day a terrible fire broke out in a forest – a huge woodlands was suddenly engulfed by a raging wild fire. Frightened, all the animals fled their homes and ran out of the forest. As they came to the edge of a stream they stopped to watch the fire and they were feeling very discouraged and powerless. They were all bemoaning the destruction of their homes. Every one of them thought there was nothing they could do about the fire, except for one little hummingbird.
This particular hummingbird decided it would do something. It swooped into the stream and picked up a few drops of water and went into the forest and put them on the fire. Then it went back to the stream and did it again, and it kept going back, again and again and again. All the other animals watched in disbelief; some tried to discourage the hummingbird with comments like, “Don’t bother,
it is too much, you are too little, your wings will burn, your beak is too tiny, it’s only a drop, you can’t put out this fire.”
And as the animals stood around disparaging the little bird’s efforts, the bird noticed how hopeless and forlorn they looked. Then one of the animals shouted out and challenged the hummingbird in a mocking voice, “What do you think you are doing?” And the hummingbird, without wasting time or losing a beat, looked back and said, “I am doing what I can.” ~ Wangari Maathai
Boola boola boola!
“The Marks of Human Passage”
“It is a better world with some buffalo left in it, a richer world with some gorgeous canyons unmarred by signboards, hot-dog stands, super highways, or high-tension lines, undrowned by power or irrigation reservoirs. If we preserved as parks only those places that have no economic possibilities, we would have no parks. And in the decades to come, it will not be only the buffalo and the trumpeter swan who need sanctuaries. Our own species is going to need them too.
It needs them now.”
–from “The Marks of Human Passage” by Wallace Stegner, included in “This is Dinosaur: Echo Park Country and its Magic Rivers” (1955)
“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Warm. Warmer. Disco.”
:)
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. Phyllis Theroux
ha!
“ For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier… I put them in the same room and let them fight it out. ”
― Steven Wright
Fountain, fountain
Fountain, fountain
We are the same
Fountain, fountain
We are the same
You with the water, and me with the pain
Turning it over again and again
Don’t you wish you could throw your pennies back at them?
Don’t you wish you could throw your pennies back at them
Back at them
At them
Fountain, Fountain
We are the same
Fountain, Fountain
We are the same
All that anyone ever has for you
Are the things you reflect back to them
Don’t you wish you could throw your pennies back at them?
Don’t you wish you could throw your pennies back at them?
Back at them
At them
Fountain, fountain
We are the same
Fountain, fountain
We are the same
It is so beautiful how you remain
-sara lov
i love this song. her video was lov-ely too: