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Alle kan gjøre noe - litt mer om bærekraft

Grethe Sofie Bratlie er en av mine inspiratorer. Vi har kjent hverandre noen år og bildet over er fra en tur til Nord-Italia hvor vi deltok på en yogatur. Grethe Sofie brenner for mange saker, blant annet bærekraft. Eventyret under leste hun for oss på en engelsk workshop i mai 2022 nettopp med temaet bærekraft. Historien er fortalt av Nobel prisvinner og professor Laureate Wangari Maathai. Den forteller hvor viktig det er at vi alle kan gjøre noe når håpløsheten og apatien banker på døren. Les gjerne mer om mine tanker om bærekraft under eget kapitel her.

The hummingbird and the fire

The terrible fire raged and burned.

All of the animals were afraid and fled from their homes. The elephant and the tiger, the beaver and the bear all ran, and above them the birds flew in a panic.They huddled at the edge of the forest and watched. All of the creatures gathered, except one. Only Dukdukdiya, the little hummingbird, would not abandon the forest. Dukdukdiya flew quickly to the stream. She picked up a single drop of water in her beak. Dukdukdiya flew back and dropped the water on the fire. Again she flew to the stream and brought back another drop, and so she continued-back and forth, back and forth.

The other animals watched the little hummingbird Dukdukdiya's tiny body fly against the enormous fire, and they were frightened. They called out , warning her of the dangers of the smoke and the heat.

"What can I do?" sobbed the rabbit. "This fire is much too hot." "There is too much smoke!" howled the wolf. "My wings will burn! My beak is too small!" cried the owl. The hummingbird swooped into the stream and picked up a few drops of water and went into the forest and put them on the fire. Then it went back to the stream and did it again, and it kept going back, again and again and again.

All the other animals watched in disbelief; some tried to discourage the hummingbird with comments like "Don't bother, it is too much, you are too little, your wings will bird, your beak is too tiny, it's only a drop, you can't put out this fire."

As the animals stood around disparaging the little bird's efforts, the bird noticed how hopeless and forlorn they looked. Then one of the animals shouted out and challenged the hummingbird in a mocking voice: "What do you think you are doing?". The hummingbird, without wasting time or losing a beat, looked back and said: "I am doing what I can."