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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Gauguin who wrote (9665)4/12/1998 1:28:00 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (2) of 71178
 
I have just had a revelation about existence, and balance, and harmony.
I know you want to hear it. It could be life-altering.

The "church ladies" in my little hometown Lutheran Church were always doing projects and one of these was collecting the remains of their soaps. My mother did this; she had a little margarine container in the bathroom closet and she would put the slivers in it when they got acceptably small.

(When my mother died, she had an entire kitchen cabinet packed with little empty margarine tubs-hundreds of them. Why? How many margarine tubs can one person use?)

And then they would all get together in the church kitchen with their little containers and melt all those little soap slivers in a pot and make new bars and send them to Africa. Those bars of soap fascinated me. They had so much character-such history. I would hold them and smell them and look at the different streaks of color and think how much more meaning they held than the bar of Dial on our sink.

But what's more fascinating (here's the revelation part) is that those women had found a way to not have to use the slivers!!! A way that even allowed them to feel good about not using the slivers. Why-the bigger the sliver, the better!!!
Doesn't that just seem like such a great way to deal with life? Finding a way to turn your irritations into someone else's solutions?
It just seemed to have a certain symmetry.
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