Friday, September 12, 2014

Kindness in the Laundry Room

"How far that little candle throws his beams!  So shines a good deed in a weary world."
― William Shakespeare

Where I live, we don't have individual washers and dryers, and instead rely on a communal laundry room.  That means that if you don't get your clothes out of the washer or the dryer before the next person wants to use the machine, you will find them in a heap on top of one of the machines.  When life gets busy, I occasionally forget that I have a load to pick up.

Recently, in the midst of a weekday scurry hurrying morning, I remembered that I had forgotten to pick up a load from the dryer the night before.  I ran to the laundry room, thinking about how quickly I could pull the clothes out of the dryer without dropping random items on the floor and race back to the morning routine.  What I found instead was my laundry folded in my basket with my husband's work shirts neatly spread out on top to minimize wrinkling.  I smiled and grabbed my laundry basket, and marveled at the many opportunities there are for kindness.

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