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The Dalai Lama once had a wonderful talk about compassion, in which he mentioned how natural it is to feel for another being that’s suffering — such as when you see a fish gasping for air out of water, your first instinct is to throw it back in.

Unless you’re fishing, I guess. But you get the idea. The Dalai Lama doesn’t fish, so I suspect that isn’t what he meant.

So I found this picture, which likely wasn’t taken around here, but it’s reasonable that there’s a little girl about this age in who does live around here. We have some $200, more or less, in $ MATCHING FUNDS $ left (I have to check the offer details, but that’s about what it is).

So for five bucks or ten or what have you, you can sponsor a blogger if you want, and I can practically guarantee you’ll feel better afterwards. In fact, forget practically — I will guarantee it. If you don’t feel better, you don’t have to send in your pledge money. If you do feel better, a little girl or boy about this age will get to eat something.

Here’s another “fish story”

There’s another fish story along the same lines. A great storm strands many fish on the beach. A little boy is walking along the beach, picking up the struggling fish and putting them back in the water.

An old man comes up and says, “Little Boy, this was a terrible storm. There are thousands of fish that were washed ashore. You’ll never get them all. What you’re doing can’t possibly matter.”

The little boy answered, “It matters to the ones I put back.”