When you pick up a seashell from the beach, you are receiving an opportunity from the ancient pandemonium of the water.

The water doesn’t owe you anything. But it puts out anyway.

“Here is something; don’t waste it,” it murmurs. What you don’t take, it will recycle.

Don’t waste it.

Arcadia Conrad teaches and writes in the South Bay Area, California. She really dislikes playing Two Truths and a Lie.