Kohaku Dragon Rose
Bio
Stories (2)
Filter by community
Saving the Seas with a Broom and Dustpan!
I work at an aquarium. A non-profit staffed with fabulous educators, amazing sea turtle rehabilitators, and an awesome conservation team that is saving wetlands. My department is Environmental Services (ES) Which is a fancy way of saying I'm a janitor. I’m well aware of the stereotypes of jobs like mine, they’re not always wrong. It is a fair amount of physical labor. I do have to clean up disgusting things. And like any other public service job, guests can be frustrating and do annoying things such as: flushing diapers causing the restroom to flood, staying fifteen to thirty minutes after closing forcing me to get off late, and mixing trash and recycling. But in all truth this is the best job I’ve ever had!
By Kohaku Dragon Rose 4 years ago in Earth
Memaw Rose
That was the summer when my relationship with Memaw Rose changed. I spent nearly every childhood summer on the family farm with Memaw. That summer I was 15 years old. My memaw, the term my family used for grandma, lived on an expansive farm. In the middle of the lush, green acres sat the family home, a spacious four story stone house. The house has been in our family for generations. I’ve been told that when our ancestors were able to buy land it was a big deal. They even started a family graveyard on a ridge opposite of the house, which our family nicknamed “Over Yonder Forest”. Because of the tradition where we only use plain ol’ rocks to mark graves and plant fruit trees next to the rocks. After so many decades the trees have become a patch of woods. It's symbolic of the cycle of life and death, I believe. The older trees have even swallowed up the headstone rocks. We only know whose graves are whose by oral records. But as time progressed our family spread out and away from each other and the family land. Fortunately Memaw wrote down the names for the future generations.
By Kohaku Dragon Rose 4 years ago in Families
