Laundry is Life
Clean up your act . . .
A great equalizer in life is its need for constant maintenance. Simple, daily, monotonies that refresh our common needs.
Laundry, cooking, hygiene, all exist throughout our lives, and may provide great comfort as well as a chance to stop and look at where we are. I truly love a laundromat - there is poetry and beauty in the random patterns and thrum of tumbling clothes in a dryer - meanwhile, small scenes are played out from an unnamed manuscript as people wait for their clothes to be cleaned and sorted - the sense of renewal as sheets and towels are folded and readied for the trip home, to start anew, refreshed.
Rest your head on clean sheets, feel the soft newness of a freshly laundered shirt, know that you can always start over again, no matter how far you’ve come, no matter how dirty the road.
This reminds me a scene from “The Handmaid’s Tale” (novel) where the narrator talks about going to the laundromat in terms of all the little freedoms that it encompasses.