Recently, I found this glove left behind at a construction site. If I had dropped the glove, I would have picked it up. I’m not sure why a glove was in the area in the summertime.
This week, there has been one shoe in the middle of Highway 70S in Bellevue. How does one lose one shoe in the middle of the road?
When we did our trash pickup during the Great American Clean Up, I found a pile of clothes. Because they were wet and had partially been hidden by ground cover, I removed as many as I could carry in my bag.
I see clothes a lot during my walks. Once I found a Titans baseball cap, which I brought home, washed and wore for a while. It was new anyway. I don’t think that it had ever been worn.
I just can’t get used to our throw away society. If we have worn out t-shirts, we’ll use them for rags. If the clothes are still wearable, we donate them to Goodwill. At worst, we toss in the garbage.
My mother used to give all all of our outgrown clothing and household goods to a family in my home town. I remember one Christmas visiting them with my mother. Our discarded Christmas decorations looked new and beautiful. Much of the furniture in the home was familiar to me. The home was one of the cleanest houses that I have ever visited. And I recognized some of the clothes. That’s one of my fondest Christmas memories.
