Two Miles a Day

My Boyfriend and I are committed to walking two fast (for us) miles a day. It's fun to look for different places to walk like around lakes, through college campuses and, when it's too hot to walk outside, in malls.

Yesterday's newspaper featured a new sculpture display in a mall across town. So that's where we walked.

The title for the sculpture(s) was "Can - Do" because they were all constructed - by architects and engineers - from cans and bottles. Thousands and thousands of them.

"Saturday Can Fever" featured John Travolta crafted from cans of Bartlett pears with white labels that came together to resemble his white suit. Upside down Jello cups made up the shimmering disco floor.

"Operation Gumbo Drop" featured a "silver" airplane built from silver-labeled pea cans. The clouds were dozens of bags of marshmallows. All of the can goods used in this sculpture can be used for gumbo. I guess the marshmallows could be for dessert.

Another sculpture was a construction site featuring a bulldozer with "Bob the Builder" at the wheel.

Still another, a whale coming up from the ocean. The ocean consisted of hundreds of clear water bottles.

We were amazed!

We also were reminded of some disturbing stats. In our metropolitan area nearly 300,000 people go hungry every day. Almost half of them are kids and old people. A third of them have full time jobs.

To me this is shameful in a community with so much wealth and waste.

But at least when the sculptures are deconstructed the can goods will go to the hungry people.

I wonder where we'll walk today.