Goldie and the Garbage Gang Extraordinaire!

 Meet Goldie! 

She is a superwoman hero of epic stature, (four feet tall) and her secret power, which is the ability to see into the future, gives her a vision of what will soon transpire in her very own neck of the city. Her neighborhood is located on the northern outskirts of town, near a busy main highway that hosts plenty of used car lots, fast food, fast woman for sale, and not a lot of care taken to tread lightly with nature.   

What Goldie’s future-sight reveals, is an ever-expanding team of masked heroes, (also all of pint sizes, and ranging in age from 4-10 years old), who intermittently unplug their virtual school and gaming devices to come out of their homes during the dark cold days of the 2020 Covid Pandemic winter, to collect discarded trash, and give the trees and blackberry shrubs a chance to sigh a breath of relief. 

Once they calm their parents’s wariness of the dangers of the task, the members of the gang come out in groups of twos and threes, never breaking the unspoken but understood rule of six feet of social distance, but always waving, calling to, and encouraging each other. It takes a long time to make a dent in the visual scourge of scattered cans and bottles, boxes and clothing; but as the weeks trudge on, Goldie’s marvelous mind’s eye reveals that the work of the small heroes eventually opens a bright window of hope for the spring days which will begin to squeeze their way into existence.....

.....and what comes next will cause you wonder of a sort that the imagination has never dared. A pandemic may have closed the schools, but it has not crushed the spirit of the youth. In fact it has ignited passion in an entire generation that is flaring much sooner and stronger than humanity has ever seen....