On January 6, 2021, thousands of people stormed the capitol with the intention of halting the electoral college’s certification of the next president of the United States.
They were armed. They broke windows. People were injured. Items were stolen. People were arrested. Some died.
I was scared, angry, embarrassed, and completed dumbfounded as to why I was the only one in my office near tears.
See a problem, fix a problem.
Words I live by, but how could I fix this? I can’t. I am one. I am no one.
On my drive home, I listened to Jane Fonda’s book What Can I Do, and, as if the Universe had planned it all, she told The Story of the Hummingbird as she heard it from Wangari Maathai.
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The short of it is this – The jungle was on fire, and none of the big animals were doing anything about it. A tiny, hummingbird was flying from a stream to the fire dropping one little drop at a time on the water. When asked what the hummingbird was doing, it tells them, “I am doing the best I can.”
I sobbed. There was my answer. To fix bigger problems, I can solve little ones and encourage others to do that same.
I will be the hummingbird. I will do the best I can.