WOMEN: Changing the World

Oh, I would like to be a part of it, wouldn't you?
Leaving just a little imprint on creating a world that works for everyone.
If we just thought more about each other.
About people we don't know or can't see.
If we just became a little more conscious and aware
About what is happening around us every day.
If we listened more; objected more; paid attention more...

What difference could this make?

If we took time to be informed and to teach others.
It overwhelms me sometimes---I feel helpless and worried.
The small acts of one person seem so insignificant when
you look on at the mess we appear to be in across our
organization, communities, and the world.

Then I recall this story:

The Starfish Story
by Loren Eiseley

"I awoke early, as I often did, just before sunrise to walk by the ocean's edge and greet the new day. As I moved through the misty dawn, I focused on a faint, far away motion. I saw a youth, bending and reaching and flailing arms, dancing on the beach, no doubt in celebration of the perfect day soon to begin.

As I approached, I sadly realized that the youth was not dancing to the bay, but rather bending to sift through the debris left by the night's tide, stopping now and then to pick up a starfish and then standing, to heave it back into the sea. I asked the youth the purpose of the effort. "The tide has washed the starfish onto the beach and they cannot return to the sea by themselves," the youth replied. "When the sun rises, they will die, unless I throw them back to the sea."

As the youth explained, I surveyed the vast expanse of beach, stretching in both directions beyond my sight. Starfish littered the shore in numbers beyond calculation. The hopelessness of the youth's plan became clear to me and I countered, "But there are more starfish on this beach than you can ever save before the sun is up. Surely you cannot expect to make a difference."

The youth paused briefly to consider my words, bent to pick up a starfish and threw it as far as possible. Turning to me he simply said, "I made a difference to that one."

I left the boy and went home, deep in thought of what the boy had said. I returned to the beach and spent the rest of the day helping the boy throw starfish in to the sea."

What small difference will you make today?

Debbe Kennedy
Founder, Global Dialogue Center
Home of Women in the Lead

Comments

[Susmita Barua]

I can see that starfish happily swimming back to the ocean, its place of birth. Each of us came out of the nurturing loving womb of both our physical mother and the mother of all Gaia. When each of us follow our love, our passion and joy relentlessly we bring that energy of love into everything. That energy ripples and ripples outward ultimately creating and phasing into one Gaia body and one Gaia mind that functions in harmony for the well-being of all.

Let us play, sing and dance together in this ever creative dancing celebration that is Life in this grand Universe! Let us help and empower each other so we can all be awakend within our most cherished personal and collective dreams for the humanity ever dreamed of. How magnificent creators we all are amid all creations in time-space!

[Debbe Kennedy]

Dear Susmita,

Thank you for sharing your beautiful VISION for the world as a place with love and harmony. I CAN SEE IT! Keep it...dreams, individual and collective do come true this way. With gratitude,

Debbe Kennedy

P. S.Have you visited here:
Building a New Collective Dream
http://www.globaldialoguecenter-socrateshall.blogs.com/wvd/