Happy Father's day to Howie!

Happy Father's day to Howie!

You have to like this pic on Linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7076402588752969728-xLZH

I met this man when I was fresh out of graduating college and selling furniture. He had just moved down to Charleston from Maryland to be close to his son who was in the Navy. I sold him a bunch of furniture, but then we became friends.

Since 2015, he has taken me in as his "child #5" and he is my chosen family.

He looks like Santa and routinely picks up litter all around Charleston. He has been in the news no less than 15 times and is touted as "beach santa" that picks up litter.

He has volunteer programs set up with the local aquarium to do regular beach sweeps of litter. Howie religiously calculates AND DOCUMENTS every piece of trash he picks up and has a ledger count of everything. He told me last Monday they picked up 498 cigarette butts. Santa is watching you litter bugs.

Took him to dinner tonight for Father's day. He just had two grandchildren born in the past month while having his second heart surgery since March.

Can I get a shout out for Howie?

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