I think most of us reach a point in our lives where we question our value in this world...our contribution if not our lasting impression on the planet.   My world has become so microscopically focused that I am losing the simple joys that I've lived long enough to appreciate.  I'm forced by circumstance to be away for extended periods from my beloved pets and home.  I feel like a stranger there when I can show up.  I know what I want to do for the future but I cannot see a way to get there from here.  It's just outside of my reach.  Then I read a story about what one woman can do to make a tiny part of the world a better, more humane place in the face of great hardship.    A single minded focus to stop suffering and needless death.  Just 1 person determined to change something that matters to her.  I'm just 1 person and there is something that matters to me - I can do this.

              If you'd like to read about this remarkable human, www.bestfriends.com  - at left column click on "Network" then subtitle at bottom "Death Valley Burros" -  (unable to get direct page link to work).

              Oh, and the numbers, 4654  1177 711