Sandcastles

Sandcastles. Molly loved Sandcastles.

Beautiful well-constructed sandcastles, built just far enough from the highest tide to stay safe, but close enough to still feel the breeze of the ocean.

Her love for Sandcastles fueled her desire for buckets. She was a collector, a connoisseur of sand-buckets, if you will. She had all sorts of colors and shapes. She had been accumulating them for a while, and had them set up in her room on various shelves.

Every so often Molly would take all of her buckets to the beach, find that perfect place on the sand near the water's edge. She'd set up all of her buckets in orderly fashion. She would assort them by shape starting with circular, then the square, and finally the oddly shaped buckets. Then she would rearrange them by color- creating a rainbow of buckets. Sometimes, if she felt ambitious, she'd sort them out by size, creating a symmetrical bridge of buckets across the sand.

Other children were quite envious of her collection. If only they had such beautiful buckets, what castles they would build!

She would just smile and watch the children, recognizing their buckets were nothing in comparison with hers. She imagined what beautiful sand castles she could make.