I have a new favorite object. It is called a grabber.
A couple of days ago I was taking a long walk with my cousin Jill---it has been so great to get to see her more often! I was telling her how I had been having a desire to start picking up trash on my walks, and that I had been thinking about trying to get one of those things people use to pick up trash. She told me they were called "grabbers" and she used to get to use them on the playground when she was doing lunch duty and that they were really fun. We turned the corner, and BAM! There she was! The Golden Grabber! She was a lovely woman wearing pearls picking up trash with a grabber and putting it into a tasteful reusable bag. We talked about grabbers for a bit, and she told me I could get one at the local hardware store, which turned out to be true. Her brilliant idea is that they should be made in short lengths for children because they would love using them and it would keep then happily busy on walks. Sounds like an entrepreneurial opportunity!
So I started thinking about "Grabber Girls," and I even started a song about us, to the tune of "Can Can Girls:"
we are the grabber girls
we always wear our pearls
we keep the beaches clean
so Santa Cruz stays green...
But then I realized that I was limiting participation by 50% for no good reason, so now I am thinking "Green Grabbers." We could even paint our tools green! Can't wait to see where this goes!
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