Sunday, November 21, 2010

the hummingbird

one mushroom is one mushroom MANY mushrooms is something else.
i woke up this morning thinking on the little hummingbird story that Wangari Maathai [Green Belt Movement] highlighted in the movie Dirt.  

i *am* doing what i can.  
at least experimenting with it, drifting, reserving judgement

at least it is one thing that i *can* do, i'm riding it undauntedly for now.  sometimes it feels foolish; sometimes brilliant.

remember the "reserve judgement" part, karen.

before this what i could do was study and read.   i had thought that i needed to go back to school to move in this direction.  ruminated on that for a while and decided it was an excuse really. "not the right training, not the right degree".   i have plenty of skills and can learn whatever i need to.   i just need to keep thinking about how the things i am can combine differently.   it wasn't helping to wake up everyday and lay awake at night with worry and fear in my heart.

something else along these lines that i need to get down:   i've forgotten where i read it but the idea is that there are so many things that need to change that we simply need more change-makers.   bingo.   more people need to see themselves with that mantle on.   our politicians, academics, religious, philanthropists..... they aren't the only ones.

what if the work every day is "making change"....

oh, loved thinking to myself last night that i had sent a postcard to Paul Stametz.  the mushroom guy.  famous enough to be in this documentary.   "hey i sent him a postcard a few weeks ago.  whooee".   go underground.

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