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Joyce Bnpp
Remember all those things your
Vlom told you to do when you
,verc a little kid because they were
‘good for you”?
Eat your spinach. Drink your
nilk. Wash behind your ears.
Change your underwear every
lay. And even though, deep in
i?our heart you knew she was
right, you vowed to hate every
ninute of it.
So you declared, “When I grow
ip, I’m going to do whatever I
rfease.” Right?
So here we are, all grown up,
ind along comes this advice that
reached out from a newspaper
page and took hold of my consci-
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ence - and shook it real good - a
few days ago.
The directive was to do two
things every day that you really
don’t want to do, for your soul’s
sake strengthens your character
and all that.
Initially, I couldn’t pinpoint too
many ordinary, routine things of
such distasteful nature until I’d
thought about it for awhile.
Then while searching for some
thing in the refrigerator, the
thought occurred that here was a
job that fit the bill perfectly. Who
likes cleaning out the refrigerator,
anyway? No one I know.
All those little containers of
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Monday thru Friday
left-over hey, anybody know
what this fuzzy green stuff is in
the yellow dish? Or how about this
jar with white mold? And then
there’s the inevitable plastic bag
tucked in the back of the vegetable
drawer with a foigolten chunk of
badly-aged cabbage. Yuk. Char
acter strengthening? If you have a
strong stomach.
Balancing the checkbook prob
ably fits in the same category of
soothing my soul. Also the bank’s.
It takes no deep psychological
delving to assess why I dread
playing “checkbook solitarc”, the
sorting and accounting for checks
returned and outstanding with
what I have left compared to the
bank’s figure.
Sec, a couple of times in the
middle of a time crunch, my
mathematical accuracy has suf
fered. So, in spite of balancing,
and rebalancing frequently on the
checkbook stubs, I still dread tack
ling this task. But, when the fig
ures all come out, it feels just like
the sun bursting through a dreary
day.
Breaking down a new section of
hay or straw in the bam is likewise
faced with dread. Usually the men
tackle this one, but on occasion,
there has been just me and a
20-fcet-high clifflike face of
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tightly-tied bundles of hay.
Trying to yank one loose from
the lower layers may be success
ful, but jeopardizes the stability of
all those tons of bales towering
above your head. Scaling the side
to get to the top, however, puts
you in peril of loosening the whole
face of the slack, and having it
tumble front when you’re about
halfway up.
Faced with such prospects, the
best alternative is to swipe a cou
ple of bales from some other feed
ing area.
Mending blue jeans is another
character builder, one of those
jobs you do out of love and
budget-watching but under pres
sure from a buried sewing
machine and empty clothing
drawers.
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Most of the dreaded jobs are
related to cleaning of some sort.
While doing them may be good
for the soul, they hardly last long
enough for you to sit back and
bask in the sunshiny glow of
accomplishment.
Washing floors, for instance.
Cleaning the oven (sometimes I
forget to be properly appreciative
of a self-cleaning oven). Vacuum
ing the automobile’s carpet, home
to the world’s most complete col
lection of itty-bitty pieces of sand,
gravel, stones, straw bits and
pulverized flakes of dried manure.
Pulling weeds. And, bringing
order to the attic.
Sooner or later, all these tasks
whose doing are “good for you”
do get tackled. I hope my soul
appreciates the efforts.
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