Result – Auction for trees and spirituality

I am so happy to report that the Auction for trees and spirituality – painting to benefit the causes I am most passionate about raised a whooping $590.40! That is $295.20 for each of my favorite causes…. almost 300 trees planted by OneTreePlanted and almost $300 for the Universal Shaiva Fellowship.

It brings the “2020 trees in 2020” project up to 1499 trees! Woohoo!

Can we fill in the gap or even more before the year ends with more donations? https://forest-fundraiser.raisely.com/claudia-dose

Thank you all for bidding and sharing and supporting me. We can do this, we can turn this climate change around for the better.

Even though this was just a small climate action it has made some positive ripples in the giant ocean of Maya as we move thru this Kali Yoga. Some of you told me that you were encouraged to do your own tree project and fundraisers. Yeah

I know there is way more that needs to change some of which we have little influence, which is very frustrating. Like reducing fossil fuels on a much larger scale. Which reminds me of the story that you may have heard before…

Once upon a time, there was an old man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach every morning before he began his work. Early one morning, he was walking along the shore after a big storm had passed and found the vast beach littered with starfish as far as the eye could see, stretching in both directions.

Off in the distance, the old man noticed a small boy approaching.  As the boy walked, he paused every so often and as he grew closer, the man could see that he was occasionally bending down to pick up an object and throw it into the sea.  The boy came closer still and the man called out, “Good morning!  May I ask what it is that you are doing?”

The young boy paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean. The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return to the sea by themselves,” the youth replied. “When the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.”

The old man replied, “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference.”

The boy bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into the ocean. Then he turned, smiled and said, “It made a difference to that one!”

adapted from The Star Thrower, by Loren Eiseley (1907 – 1977)