Bring teaspoons

BRING TEASPOONS: Folk singer Pete Seeger once built a schooner called the Clearwater. He used it to take people on Hudson River excursions to enlist their support for cleaning up the river and its beaches. Although it was a small endeavor, Seeger likened it to a seesaw with one end anchored to the ground by a basket of rocks, while activists were at the other end using teaspoons to slowly fill a basket with sand.

Some day the balance will tip and the rocks will be sent flying into the air. People will ask: "How did that happen so quickly?" It was because of "'us and our damned little teaspoons" (interview in Studs Terkel's Hope Dies Last, as reported in Trinity Seminary Review, Fall).

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