good deed for the day
I feel obligated to share my good deed for the day.
While driving home from work, I pass alongside George Bush Senior Park (formerly the US Army Engineer Wetlands Preservation Floodplain Site and Resevoir). Today, my usual routine was interrupted by an odd thing in the middle of the road. I thought that perhaps it was a log, or maybe an unfortunate and dead turtle - when suddenly, it moved.
It was a very much alive turtle in the middle of the road.
Half way to his destination, and still so far to go.
Knowing the monsters that many of my fellow state residents are, I was amazed that the beast had made it as far as it had. I immediately pulled over to the side of the road, set the emergency blinkers, disembarked... and then ran out into the road and 'rescued' the terrapin. I lifted the hefty reptile - about the size and shape of a punctured football, but much denser - and carried it quickly to the far side of the road in the direction he had been travelling.
It has been a beautiful and sunny day, and that critter had to be well over sixty years old to grow as large as it did. Pulling that creature off the road? That has been about the best I've felt about myself and the happiest I've been since I graduated. Life has been difficult this past year, but I can't but hope that perhaps I am halfway there.
I laughed all the way home.