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I found a great quote from Ghandi: " The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems." May be even more of those tiny little things to change in what we are doing daily, and how we're doing it...

Little Tiny Things

I am puzzled tonight. I feel as if a cardboard box just fell of me. The days bring many noisy, large events and things. Things to do that are necessary, like paying bills and shopping for food. Things that are noisy like writing proposals, negotiating deals, writing articles, talking to important people, meeting new people. Taking airplanes, going through security hoping nothing makes the alarm ring. Things that are clumsy and wide, like fixing techno-problems. Things that are soft and thick, like working out for your health. Things that are shiny and empty, like watching TV.

But today, i noticed the importance of tiny, little things. I compared them with insects, with the tiny little flies that are in the roof of the shower. They are so tiny, they almost are not. But they are (ask a fly!).

What made the cardboard fall off was a tiny little event, a person changing his mind. Simple as that. I don't expect anyone to understand. It's like the little flies. But for me, that little, tiny thing made me realize that it's in those little things that i'm really me. A simple event, like my building considering to start recycling. Nothing major, it's not saving global climate change. It's just a tiny, little thing.

Ps

Ok, there is more. The presenters, young and dynamic, animal loving animal keepers were very clear and repeated the message: Man is not the owner of the Planet. Man is here to keep and take care of the Planet. Man is the most threatening enemy of these species. What we need to do? Reuse, reduce, and use renewable energy. Hm Not bad, but if I was not concerned and worried with this from before, I doubt I would have got the message. And even less understand what it means to ME. Reuse - you mean what? Reduce - meaning exactly what? I am not so sure people are easily making the connection between those words and their daily behavior, their daily comfort patterns and habits. Look at me - still not driving a hybrid...

The movie that I didn't want to be in

Have you ever seen on TV these movies of the future, where the humans of the future dressed in skinthin glossy metalic catsuits have a nostalgic talk refering to the times when there were animals on the planet? Well, last Sunday I went to the Zoo, it's called The Jungle Island, and it has lots of animals and also educational shows. We atttended several different shows, and after a while something was burning in the entrance of my stomach. And it was not the hotdog. I realized that as they presented the white tiger, they indicated it was a species in extinction and that bla bla bla. Then they brought a tea-colored tiger and explained tigers used to come in a variety of colors, like the domestic cats. No longer available. Out of stock. Then they called in a cute little chimpanzee, and described his age, where they are indigeneous from, and that it's an endangered species because of logging or .... Then in the show of the birds, a wonderful condor flew from one angle to the other of the stage, and they explained his habits, where they habit, and that it's a species in extinction,with approx 200 left. Then they portrayed a strange tall Indonesian bird, and commented that it's a bird in extinction. Then they.... ENOUGH! I thought it was a fictional movie, on TV. I thought we were far from there still. I thought it's the bad thing that can happen to us if we do... if we don't.... I thought I was not part of the movie. Wrong assumption.

I wish i had a camera

Yesterday I drove on a road, a few blocks away. It used to be a huge area belonging to the horse race track. The main building was converted into an additional casino with restaurants, and more recently work began to use much of the parking area of the race track for more restaurants, plus some condos. The machines are parked along the road, workers are clearing the trees and brush vegetation. In mid of the piles of earth, roots upside down and wilting bushes, a white crane was standing, with the long neck extended, next to the workers, the trucks and the excavating machines. He was not afraid of being so close to the noise and the people - i guess because he was so much more afraid of what he was witnessing: with the removal of all that natural vegetation, he and other birds, animals, insects - were all left without their home. Needless to say that South Florida doesn't NEED one more mall and one more condo. My heart was torn apart as i watched this silent observer. A bird - who is part of a race that has been able to survive without wars, without terrorism, without black Fridays, without credit card debts, without genocides, without creating an ozone hole, without depleting fisheries, without logging, without contaminating waters. Of course, what would a bird know about development and progress.