catapult magazine

vol. 10, num. 6 :: 2011.03.25 — 2011.04.07

Snow melts and the leaves that piled up in the corners reveal themselves. Eagerness for summer boils over into a closet cleansing. Is a clean house a prerequisite for or an impediment to hospitality? To peace of mind? On the ways in which cleaning leaves us weary or satisfied, annoyed or at ease.

Feature

Disinfected mind

by John Scherer

When does cleaning become more than a healthy habit?

Editorial

Sweeping, not swept up

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

On scrubbing consumerism's stain out of our cleaning rituals.

Articles

Clean green

by Peggy Deames

A beginner's guide from the shopkeeper of Love Your Mother earth-friendly goods.

Deep cleaning

by Kathryn T. Jones

Attempting to invoke patience one closet at a time.

With a spring in my step and a mop in my hand

by Terrilynn Quillen

Of sanity and hospitality in a home that's dirty enough to be happy.

Gallery

Spring

by Michelle Julianne Gallagher

In case you missed it the first time

The sacrament of laundry

by Susan Matheson

Within the folds of clean clothes, a mother discovers something about her own mother.

Cleanliness is adjacent to godliness

by Meredith Kathryn-Case Gipson Hoogendam

On finding God in the dish water, vacuum cleaner and toilet.

Weaving the web

Getting Clean

Killing the Buddha

What is the sound of one hand washing again and again and again?

Housekeeping

IMAGE Blog

Caroline Langston on keeping the house mindfully.

daily asterisk

Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.

Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home

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