Ok my friend.

I want you to picture a Maytag washer.

A front-loader that allows you to see inside, but with no consistent clarity. You notice a red sock in with the whites...what the heck, I certainly didn't put a red sock in with the whites...?

It is going this way, that way, to the left, to the right.

Then it spins, slowly at first, then faster and faster.

Then it slows down. Stops.

Then a new load gets put in, and the cycle repeats.

Over and over, until all the laundry is done.

The piles of laundry are her issues, old and new. The washer her mind.

But eventually the laundry gets done. The laundry doesn't pile up as fast.

Buckle up your seat belt, and the kids'...

Don't put bleach in with the darks, or red in with the whites.

It will get done, and better, though it'll seem like it'll never end. and seem worse a lot of the time. But, it does get done.

Oh, why are you watching the laundry? Surely other things need doing, right?

wink


In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus

Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm