Listen up, Litter Bugs!

Do you ever see some kind of garbage wafting around a natural space and think "who would DO such a thing?"

Confession number one: my son would do such a thing. A few years ago we were visiting a local swimming hole (yes, some places still have those). My then-14-year-old thought I couldn't see him up ahead of me making his way down to the river, and he brazenly discarded some bit of doof packaging directly into the shrubbery. He jumped about a foot off the ground when he heard me gasp. Busted. But I was less mad at him than I was disappointed in myself. Clearly, I had failed. When I confronted him about it, he didn't have a real answer about what compelled him to do such a thing. He was just neutral. "I don't know," he said. "I figured it doesn't really matter."

And there it is. The defeatist within us.

Confession number two: In my early twenties, I lived in India for close to a year. My first-wave impression (among many other impressions) was: these people are dirty. Look at all the trash everywhere! When the year was over, my final impression was: these people aren't any dirtier than we are back home, we just know how to hide our trash better.

All to say: enjoy this SHORT video about the epiphany that came after finding some plastic by the river today...