Something soothing

  • There’s something soothing about the dingy room
  • The sounds of water swirling away the dirt
  • The sounds of clothes being beaten dry in a metal drum
  • The chattering voices talking about the mundane, the extraordinary
  • There’s something beautiful about the battered mismatched washers
  • Washing the clothes of poor folks
  • Washing away the sweat, the blood, the tears of honest labor
  • Washing the clothes of children, mothers, fathers
  • There’s something comforting about the warmth coming off the dryers
  • Filling the air with humidity and scents of fabric softener
  • Warming cold bones in winter
  • Causing swooning and sweat in the summer
  • There’s something homey about the people
  • Moms washing clothes for their families and chatting with their friends
  • Children running and playing with their friends
  • Folks helping one another opening the heavy doors
  • There’s something lonely about the laundry
  • As closing time nears and the lights are shut off
  • The attendant mopping the floors and shooing folks out
  • A lone, dropped sock left behind

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Raine Shakti

Raine Shakti believes in living her life cairn by cairn and in helping others learn to do the same. Her day job is in the training and communications field and her best professional experiences are when she is able to empower people. She has spent the last few years reclaiming her life and her inner warrior. Part of this journey was becoming an ordained priestess with the Fellowship of Isis. Her Matron deities are Nephthys who has helped her become a true virgin woman, the Morrigan who has taught her what it means to be sovereign, and Yemaya who has taught her the strength in having a loving heart.

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