Thank you for pollinating, Reverend Yolanda!
" There was a farmer who was the premier corn
grower in his community. His corn was always sweeter and better than
anyone else's, and it always won the blue ribbon at the county fair. At
the end of the growing season, he would take his seed corn, the corn
that would be sown the following season, and gave a large portion of it
to all the farmers in the area. 'Why do
you do that?' someone asked him. 'Don't you want to keep the best corn
for yourself?' 'I do it for myself,' replied the farmer. 'My corn will
be cross-pollinated by bees and wind from the other fields, and if they
have inferior corn, mine will soon become inferior as well."
... the world is so interconnected that whatever we do for someone else we are also doing for ourselves. No action can be taken in isolation, because everything we do ripples out and has some kind of effect.
- M.J. Ryan, The Giving Heart
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