[PyrNet-L] The bright side/Rescue

[judith diamond <pyrenees@gwi.net>]

 Hi everyone,   I just recieved this today. Upon reading it, my first
thoughts went to the brighter side of animal shelter and rescue work and
workers.  I hope that it may do the same for some of you.    One at a
Time

           A friend of ours was walking down a deserted Mexican beach
      at sunset. As he walked along, he began to see another man in the
      distance. As he drew nearer, he noticed that the local native
      kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out into
      the water. Time and again he kept hurling things out into the
      ocean.
           As our friend approached even closer, he noticed that the
      man was picking up starfish that had been washed up on the beach
      and, one at a time, he was throwing them back into the water.
           Our friend was puzzled. He approached the man and said,
      "Good evening, friend. I was wondering what you are doing."
           "I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see,
      it's low tide right now and all of these starfish have been
      washed up onto the shore. If I don't throw them back into the
      sea, they'll die up here from lack of oxygen."
           "I understand," my friend replied, "but there must be
      thousands of starfish on this beach. You can't possibly get to
      all of them. There are simply too many. And don't you realize
      this is probably happening on hundreds of beaches all up and down
      this coast? Can't you see that you can't possibly make a
      difference?"
           The local native smiled, bent down and picked up yet another
      starfish, and as he threw it back into the sea, he replied, "Made
      a difference to that one!"                           Take good
care.   Judith, Jonah & Lexi

                      By Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen

      Copyright 1996 by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Patty
      Hansen