MY Childhood Beach

When I was a little girl, I lived in a quite beat up part of town about 3 minutes away from the beach. Everyday my mother would drop my older brother off at school and then we would go to the beach. I would play in the sand while my mother studied for her college classes. I remember the water being so clear. I would spend a lot of time looking for fish and trying to find crabs. the sand was always so soft. I went back to that beach a few weeks ago. I was overwhelmed with sadness seeing all the trash and debris that was littered along the sand, and floating in the water. It really broke my heart.