12/06/2026
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(Revisiting Loren Eiseley's Star Launcher)
As I strolled at dawn along a deserted beach, absorbed in my own concerns, I spotted a little girl in the distance, repeatedly leaning and throwing something into the sea, as she walked along the endless expanse of sand in front of me.
As I got closer, I realized she was picking up and returning to the ocean the starfish that the tide had left stranded in the sand as it retreated.
When I got close enough, I asked her why she was so diligently indulging in this unusual task.
She told me the rising sun would dry the stranded starfish and they would die.
Impulsively, I told her I found it useless: there were thousands of starfish along miles and miles of beach.
A single person could not make a difference.
She smiled as she picked up the starfish one by one.
Taking one and throwing it away between the waves, she exclaimed: "For this it makes a difference!".
I gave up everything I was thinking and doing and spent the morning returning starfish to the sea.
It was a morning that changed me, a morning that reminded me that even when I feel small, even when the world seems too big, I can still make a difference.
And now, when I feel overwhelmed, I remember her smile and the way each starfish made its own little defiant splash against the vastness of the Ocean.
Tiny, secret ripples, whispered by the wind.
One more mark of Love Supreme.
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