power of one

This holiday, Animals in Distress, an animal rescue shelter in nearby Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, sent tiny starfish charms to its supporters. The charm, which I have hung on the small feather tree, came with a little story about thousands of starfish stranded on a beach after a violent storm. A man stood on the beach, picking up the starfish one by one and tossing them back into the ocean. A passerby wondered why anyone would bother when there were so many starfish littering the sands. There was no way to save them all, so what difference did it make? Said the rescuer, starfish in hand, "It makes a great difference to this one."