“Throughout the day, Stargirl had been dropping money. She was the Johnny Appleseed of loose change: a penny here, a nickel there. Tossed to the sidewalk, laid on a shelf or bench. Even quarters.
"I hate change," she said. "It's so . . . jangly."
"Do you realize how much you must throw away in a year?" I said.
"Did you ever see a little kid's face when he spots a penny on a sidewalk?”
"Do you realize how much you must throw away in a year?" I said.
"Did you ever see a little kid's face when he spots a penny on a sidewalk?”
And it stuck with me. Whenever I go to the store to buy something, I keep the change in my wallet until the opportune moment arrives. Sometimes I'm on a street corner, or walking alone in a school hallway, or even just outside the grocery store. When no one is looking, I drop a coin on the ground, always heads up (because, of course, it won't be lucky otherwise). Today, as left the restaurant after a dinner with my grandparents, I left a penny and a quarter outside the front door, in as dry an area as I could find.
Well, that's it for today. Hopefully tomorrow I'll start up with my new, mystery project.
Seems like this concept would work well with something like leaving behind kind notes to people. It costs little to do it, but its value could be out of this world.
ReplyDeleteThat's really wonderful. I love it. (:
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