One of the things I think about is -- we never know what will make a difference. Which molecule of broccoli is it, that wards off cancer? Which donation might mean that poachers were stopped and an elephant lives, or that a tree is planted which will enable a lemur (or an orangutan) to survive? Which piece of plastic, sent to a landfill rather than allowed to reach the ocean, may enable a sea turtle to live?
Which thank-you note helps a hard-working congressperson to keep on keeping on?
Look what I got in the mail, the day after I mailed those valentines! That dark spot in the upper left corner is the back of an embossed Seal of the United States of America, on official correspondence from my congressperson!!!
I have sent a lot of letters to a lot of politicians over the years. This response to a thank-you note I sent last month is the first and only hand-written response I've ever gotten.
She said I made her week. At a "challenging time."
Woohoo!!!!!! Yay.
This will keep me going for a long while.
We can't know which of the little things we do may make a noticeable difference.
But we better stand up and do them, because -- what if they would have made a difference, but we failed to do them?
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