Lint Traps

I*m back to thinking that all of us could use a good stint in a halfway house or even communal living.  We do it as families, but sometimes we don*t get the shared nature of it all very well.   Last night in small group we coined out two guys to a recovery home.  I will miss them!  At the same time, we had new guys who couldn*t understand why the lint traps were such a big deal.  In the halfway house, dirty dryer lint traps have consequences.

There*s nothing like work in a halfway house

To show the importance

Of cleaning dryer lint traps,

Or not leaving the dirty butter knife

In the cupboard

Out of sight.

These sound like small things,

But the guys learn that small things

Grow like Topsy

As my grandmother used to say.

They lead to consequences.

 Consequences arise

From lint

And butter knives

And doors left open

To the smoke deck.

Community consequences.

There*s nothing like the daily reminders

In the halfway house

Of consequence;

Reminders

That all of us contribute

To the mess

Or cleanness

Of a place.