{"id":6494,"date":"2020-11-09T07:05:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6494"},"modified":"2020-11-09T07:05:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:05:11","slug":"pick-up-your-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/pick-up-your-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick Up Your Trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6494\" data-postid=\"6494\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6494 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>I walked the beach just after dawn. I was hunting keyhole limpets and hairy tritons for no other reason than to amass more of them. A few gulls flew overhead. The sand was deep and I plodded through it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the forts I started months ago that some enterprising builder(s) had come along and greatly improved, beckoned, so I changed course to investigate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I entered the circular fort, I saw a piece of yellow legal paper flat on a cut round of driftwood. The paper was weighted down with a piece of wood. It had writing on it and was somewhat wet from last night&#8217;s fog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below the note, was a small pile of trash and the remains of a fire. One item stood out: an empty can of black bean soup. Clearly someone had heated the soup on the fire and probably spent the night in the fort and left behind their trash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I read the note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a gentle invitation to pick up the trash for the litterer who was long, long gone. The note said <em>Thank You<\/em> at the end. I was struck by the kindness of the tone&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The note perplexed me. A fellow beachcomber had encountered the trash and also happened to be carrying a legal pad and pen to leave such a note? The trash pile contained paper and pen? It all defied sense<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, still, the note was there and I admired the writing and the message. Good cursive too.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walked the beach just after dawn. I was hunting keyhole limpets and hairy tritons for no other reason than to amass more of them. A few gulls flew overhead. The sand was deep and I plodded through it. One of the forts I started months ago that some enterprising builder(s) had come along and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-driftwood-forts","category-meditations","category-oregon-beaches","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6498,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions\/6498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}