it seems like every time i go to the young circle dunkin donuts (that one you took chris to, bethy!), i always manage to spot a weirdo. a picture-worthy weirdo. today it was a woman that was.. oh, i dunno.. 55 or so? dressed as if she was 16. she had a white gypsy skirt on, with a white hippie top with sequins.. a jean jacket over it.. big hoop earrings.. then purple socks & high-heeled wooden sandals. seriously, the lady thought she was 16. i sat there and said a little prayer that i grow old gracefully, accepting my age along the way.
as i walked out, i realized that i was wearing a nice, black work dress.. and bright blue crocs. (i brought other shoes to work with me but have yet to have a reason to slip off these comfy ones.) i was probably someone else's weirdo sighting for the day! :)
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
