Worth the Try

Worth the Try

Noel Laflin

4-12-18

The little hummingbird with the bad wing did not make it.

Was the effort to save and rehabilitate something so small and fragile worth it, you might ask?

I guess it depends on one’s point of view.

For me, I look no further than that great line from Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s ‘Little Prince,’ when the lad from a very tiny planet, the one who also fell to Earth, remarks: ‘The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.’

And in our case, in the hand as well.

So, yes, it was worth the try.

Maybe next time.