Seashells and ShamingEasy Weight Loss

I grew up in California and went to the beach often enough from my childhood onward that walking and picking up shells was a common thing to do, and something that I've always enjoyed.  I have an old wine bottle (conveniently picked up on the beach as well) that is full of shells that have to be over 40 years old:

The picture frame is made with California beach shells, courtesy of Barbara.

I have little bowls and displays of shells in my office:

Confession:  The sand dollars were all gifts from friends - I cannot find a whole sand dollar, ever!

When I was in California earlier this month, Barbara and I managed to get a quick walk in on a small beach just north of Santa Cruz, and as we've done forever, we both immediately bent our heads down, automatically looking for interesting shells, bits of driftwood, and sea glass:

I left this one there because the seaweed was attached to it, but what a pretty thing to come upon!

Natural art, courtesy of the ocean.

This is what I came home with - not a bad haul for a 10 minute walk.

As we were picking up shells, Barbara asked me if I was going to post about them on the blog; she reminded me of getting "shell shamed" by someone (I'd actually forgotten but yeah, that sounds about right) once before when I wrote about picking up shells.  The thing is, I obviously don't have an issue with picking up sea shells (or pine cones, as you can see some from North Carolina in the top picture).  I like to bring a little bit of nature into my home, and to me, it's perfectly fine to do.  I know some people might say that if everyone picked up shells, there wouldn't be any more shells on the beach but let's face it, that isn't going to happen, so I do my thing and it makes me happy.

But it has me wondering - what is something you do, or have done, that you've been shamed for when you didn't think it was wrong?  I'm sure as a blogger I've shared things that have made some of my readers be aghast at what I've done but thankfully it's rare when someone has commented and shamed me. Feel free to share your shame in the comments - we can absolve each other of our purported wrongdoings!

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