'The Butterfly Effect'

Good afternoon my friends....I would like to tell you a story today about my dear ones the birds and the butterflies and fairies. 

 

You see, the butterflies and the birds often come to me and whisper little messages in my ear, and sometimes they tell me things of very small matter, such as that it's going to be a breezy day today so please wear a scarf, or to put the kettle on as someone is coming to visit....and other times it is matters of great importance, such as giving me messages to go for a walk, where it turns out I may come across a person or creature in need of assistance...or perhaps will capture an inspiring message in the clouds...or simply put..I just may perhaps be called upon to save the world!


 Well today the message is no less than just that - saving the world, and my little winged friends have a message for all of us here today.  But I will first tell you the story, so to give you a better understanding of how very, very important YOU are to this story.


"Once upon a time, there was a lovely fairy named Pearl.  Now pearl was a sea-fairy or sprite, as they are called, and she loved nothing more than to skim over top of the waves, then dive underneath them to the warm ocean bed below, where she would take care of the oysters and polish the beautiful round pearls nestled inside each one. 


 Her friends the starfish would come and play games with Pearl and her friends, and give them slides down Neptune's Gulch, until Pearl would fly home to the call of her father's trumpet at nightfall. 

A great storm came one night, and Pearl awoke to find the shoreline littered with the still living bodies of her friends the starfish, as they had been washed up on shore by the enormous waves. 


 Frantically, Pearl and her friends began to work, trying to drag the starfish back into the ocean.  But sea-sprites are very small, so their efforts were in vain, as the starfish were too soggy and heavy for the little fairies wings to carry.  


Desperately, Pearl looked around the shore to see if anyone could help.  A young boy was playing in the tidal pools nearby.  Breaking the rules, which forbid fairies to converse with humans, as so few can see through the veil in this modern world, Pearl flew to the boy, and begged him to help save her friends. 


 Luckily, the child was one who knew about fairies, and he leapt into action, throwing one after the other starfish back into the sea.  Bending, and throwing, bending and throwing, the boy looked like a dancer as he bent and threw, bent and threw, over and over and over again.


 Soon the boy attracted the attention of passers-by, as families were now arriving at the starfish-strewn beach.  They stood and watched,  slightly mocking in their tone as they called to the boy,  


"Young man, why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?"


The boy never halted in his purpose as he yelled back,


 "The sun is up, the tide is out, and they will surely die if I do not help them!" 



"But there are too many! the people responded, You cannot possibly make a difference!"


The boy listened politely, bent down, picked up another starfish, and threw it in the sea.


"It made a difference to that one." he said.

It was then, and only then, that the people, realizing that the boy was right, started to run to help him with his task, and in no time all the starfriends were back in the ocean where they belonged.  Pearl thanked the boy and returned to tend to her friends, and all was well in the world."

 

You see, the fairies and the boy knew something that the people had yet to learn.  And that was the fact that even the most overwhelmingly insurmountable task had to start somewhere, with someone.


  As the saying goes, 'A journey of a thousand miles begins with one small step'.  


Well, today, the message that the birds and butterflies and fairies have come to share is this - 


YOU are the one who will change the world, YOU are the one who will make a difference, even if only to one small creature, if only in one small way...it is still YOU who will do it!  


There is power in action.  There is greatness in the moment when we stoop to pick up the first starfish, when we decide to act in the face of overwhelming odds.  It may seem as though our task is impossible.  It may feel as though we are all alone in our efforts.  We may be mocked and ridiculed because of it. 


 Through the centuries there are countless stories of how people have been persecuted and even killed for their beliefs, only to be proved correct years later..but we remember the names of Galileo and Capurnicus to this day, not the names of their detractors, who have long since faded into the the dark abyss of oblivion.  


"But what can little old me do to save the world?" you ask. "How can I fight the big Oil corporations who are poisoning our rivers and lakes, the bio-tech companies like Monsanto who are splicing even more poisons into our foods, the nuclear radioactive cesium now reaching our  coastlines from Japan? How can I stop this?  What can I do? How can I possibly make a difference?"


Well, there is mounting evidence that you can make an enormous difference, and the way to start is in your own environment, within your own home, with your own friends and family.

Have you heard of the Butterfly Effect?  It is a scientific theory that maintains that a single occurence, no matter how small, can change the universe.


 

OK - admittedly it takes a certain kind of bravery to take such bold steps - but even those of us a little  fainter-of-heart can do their part.

  Speaking of butterflies - did you know that the beautiful Monarch butterfly is in danger?  Dwindling habitat  and pesticides such as glysophates that have also found to have been killing bees globally has caused this amazing butterfly to dwindle an alarming 96.5 percent over the last few decades. 

Madame Butterfly

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