After a long hiatus from my post..... I have been convinced by an old college friend to return to The Laundry Pit.
This column, started in college. It was the vent for my gripes, elation, and musings as a 17-year-old college co-ed..... viewing the world from my small dorm room...and with the only solitude to write on my own being when I did my laundry.
The laundry room in my dorm was a dark, windowless world of ancient and noisy machines, mis-matched socks, and clusters of lint that moved about the room with ghost-like animation of their own. It was here that I wrote my column, in my journal, and often a letter that may or may not have been mailed. It was my dark and gloomy place to empty my thoughts onto paper, and purge things from my creative corners, either joyfully- or through great pain.
Therefore, I found that the similarities between this environment and the 'pit' of medieval lore, were too many to be avoided.
The Laundry Pit was born.
My life took other directions after college; children, marriage, divorce, remarriage, careers, aimless wanderings, pointed wanderings, and other items I will have to revisit and rehash in some detail.....
So...after quite an absence..... I have returned. As Lucy of Peanuts fame says, "The Doctor is in."
This column, started in college. It was the vent for my gripes, elation, and musings as a 17-year-old college co-ed..... viewing the world from my small dorm room...and with the only solitude to write on my own being when I did my laundry.
The laundry room in my dorm was a dark, windowless world of ancient and noisy machines, mis-matched socks, and clusters of lint that moved about the room with ghost-like animation of their own. It was here that I wrote my column, in my journal, and often a letter that may or may not have been mailed. It was my dark and gloomy place to empty my thoughts onto paper, and purge things from my creative corners, either joyfully- or through great pain.
Therefore, I found that the similarities between this environment and the 'pit' of medieval lore, were too many to be avoided.
The Laundry Pit was born.
My life took other directions after college; children, marriage, divorce, remarriage, careers, aimless wanderings, pointed wanderings, and other items I will have to revisit and rehash in some detail.....
So...after quite an absence..... I have returned. As Lucy of Peanuts fame says, "The Doctor is in."
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