(clean) laundry

Whenever I wash and dry laundry, I get one solitary thrill –
I
LOVE
cleaning out the lint trap.
It’s like a fun, fast, satisfying experiment. What mysteries escaped from my laundry today?
This week, red dirt and tiny rocks lined the lint trap, a sneaky reminder of our trip to a red clay and rock national park.
Last week, when I washed the couch cover, the lint trap was thickly lined with white and orange reminders of our two little housemates.
Two weeks ago, the lint was deeply tinted navy blue, a reminder that I had never washed a dark blue towel we’d gotten for our wedding.
The lint trap is a fun reminder, a succinct condensation of our life together.
I spend a lot of my time in this little apartment. It’s fun to find the tiny mysteries within it.