Spending time at national parks can be an exciting adventure, but this wasn't the type of

excitement she was hoping to experience. As she contemplated the situation she found herself
in, she knew she'd gotten herself in a little more than she bargained for. It wasn't often that she
found herself in a tree staring down at a pack of wolves that were looking to make her their next
meal.
The amber droplet hung from the branch, reaching fullness and ready to drop. It waited. While
many of the other droplets were satisfied to form as big as they could and release, this droplet
had other plans. It wanted to be part of history. It wanted to be remembered long after all the
other droplets had dissolved into history. So it waited for the perfect specimen to fly by to trap
and capture that it hoped would eventually be discovered hundreds of years in the future.
The wave crashed and hit the sandcastle head-on. The sandcastle began to melt under the
waves force and as the wave receded, half the sandcastle was gone. The next wave hit, not
quite as strong, but still managed to cover the remains of the sandcastle and take more of it
away. The third wave, a big one, crashed over the sandcastle completely covering and
engulfing it. When it receded, there was no trace the sandcastle ever existed and hours of hard
work disappeared forever.
He was an expert but not in a discipline that anyone could fully appreciate. He knew how to hold
the cone just right so that the soft server ice-cream fell into it at the precise angle to form a
perfect cone each and every time. It had taken years to perfect and he could now do it without
even putting any thought behind it. Nobody seemed to fully understand the beauty of this
accomplishment except for the new worker who watched in amazement.
There was little doubt that the bridge was unsafe. All one had to do was look at it to know that
with certainty. Yet Bob didn't see another option. He may have been able to work one out if he
had a bit of time to think things through, but time was something he didn't have. A choice
needed to be made, and it needed to be made quickly.