Water for Africa

Well, we donated to Deb's trip to Africa by purchasing bracelets...

Water for Africa... help for Africa!!

Had no clue they were going to be THIS awesome!

Purple is Hadley's (per Tristan), Aunt Kimmie wants the orange and Aunt Kelly is getting a brown or a green...

more people want them... so I'll be pointing them HERE:

http://andsoweserve.blogspot.com/2012/02/your-bag-tag.html

to help!

BE THE CHANGE... leave the world better than you found it.  People are PEOPLE regardless of where they live.  If you CAN help......... do it.  Even if it's just ONE person... it makes a difference.

The Story of the Hummingbird

Photo By Tony Cricelli

I first heard this inspirational story in May 2006 when Noble Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai addressed

7,000 international educators who had gathered in Montreal for NAFSA’s 58th annual conference. Here is

the story she shared with us in Montreal.

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."

Like the hummingbird, we each must do what we can.

 

Be a Hummingbird