6 January 2012 - An Afternoon, Folded, Put Away - Red Rhino Outreach Project

6 January 2012 – An Afternoon, Folded, Put Away

January 5, 2012 Greg Traverso Uncategorized

The time passes here marked and jewelled by ordinary things. We like it and them that way. The fun is in the creases. Know what I mean?

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Jest settin' on the porch a spell of an afternoon.

What you call Chutes and Ladders is here, Snakes and Ladders. An upgrade, I think.

Folding laundry was the post dinner activity. Christine had a big pile on the sofa in the boy's house.

Everybody folded his own stuff, in his own way. Here's Simon's upright table fold.

And here's his one knee up hunched over floor fold.

Jeff's one-knee-up, straight-back floor fold.

Sammy and Steve in chair detention for some extracurriculars.

Courage's lap casual take.

Kaleb invented the table top hand ironing method.

Joshua, whose birthday was Wednesday, in the two-handed, groin stretch style.

Peter's meditative, budding Benedictine monk posture.

Jeff's modified, side-saddle, look.

The hurdler's stretch fold.

Lucky's "happy to be here folding" groove.

Pretty soon there was one pile per boy.

John emerged as a sock specialist.

Ferreting out the matches,

then stuffing one down the other's gullet.

On the seventh pile, we rested.

The girls were hard at it too.

Folding and filling up their drawers.

Folding...

...and filling.

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When we’re not folding clothes we’re out getting ’em dirty. Just a snake eating its tail, I guess, and happy on the way.

So long for now,

David

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Debi Lorenc says
January 5, 2012 at 10:53 pm

I think my kids could take a few lessons from the the RR kids.
Thich Nhat Hanh woud be proud.
Very touching. 2012 blessings to all of you.
Thanks David!
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david says
January 6, 2012 at 2:57 am

Thanks Debi. There’s a lot of Brother Lawrence in these guys. Clothes folding in the here and now, boys.

Happy new year to you and your toe shoe wearing husband.

David
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Michalyn Simpson says
January 7, 2012 at 12:31 am

Forget my kids, I think I could take a lesson or two from the RR kids.
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david says
January 7, 2012 at 7:59 pm

Hi Michalyn,

We could all do with a day or two in the school house here. Thanks for your prayers.

David
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Chris L says
January 8, 2012 at 12:27 am

Are those Barbies taught/required to fold their own clothes, too?

â€” Toe shoe wearing husband
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ear Toe,david says
January 9, 2012 at 7:39 am

Dear Toe,
The Barbies, as most right thinking people know, are currently required only to look nice. But I’m tossing around the idea of giving them mohawks and requiring them to start an Occupy plastic surgeons offices.

Whadaya think?

D

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