--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> on 12/21/05 5:17 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > Prioritizing money spent. Which is better, spending millions on
> > meditation-related activities, or spending millions on activities
> > that everyone else spends hundreds of billions on?
> > 
> > Sending a million to Katrina relief sounds great, but its less 
than
> > 1/50,000th of what the US government is already spending. BAD use 
of
> > limited resources to give more money to Katrina victims unless 
its in
> > a way that no-one else is...
> 
> The Starfish
> Ka Hôkû Kai
> [kah HOH' KOO' kai]
> http://hawaiianlanguage.com/shelties/starfish.html
>     
> 
> Once upon a time, there was a wise kupuna (elder),
> who went to the sea to contemplate.
> One day, while walking along the shore,
> the kupuna looked down the beach,
> and saw a gracefully dancing
> human figure.
> 
> The kupuna wondered out loud,
> "Who would so joyfully greet this day with hula?"
> and began to walk faster to catch up.
> 
> Getting closer,
> the kupuna saw that the dancer was a keiki (child),
> who was not dancing at all.
> The keiki was reaching down to the sand to pick up something,
> and was very gently throwing it into the sea.
> 
> The kupuna called out to the keiki,
> "Aloha! What are you doing?"
> 
> The keiki paused, looked up and replied,
> "Throwing starfish into the sea."
> 
> Surprised, the kupuna sputtered,
> "IŠI guess I should have asked,
> WHY are you throwing starfish into the sea?"
> 
> The keiki smiled brightly, pointed upward and,
> with exquisite simplicity, replied,
> "The sun is up, the tide is going out.
> If I don't throw them in, they will die."
> 
> "But, don't you realize, " asked the kupuna,
> "that there are miles and miles of beach
> and starfish all along it?
> You can't possibly make a difference!"
> 
> The keiki listened politely.
> Then bent down, picked up another starfish,
> threw it gently into the sea, just beyond the breaking waves,
> and exuberantly declared,
> "It made a difference for that one."
>

But if the beach is loaded with people throwing back starfish, and 
you know of an isolated cove  that no-one goes to where a rare 
starfish makes its home, which is a better use of your time? Throwing 
back one in millions, or one in ten?








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