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No, I'm not referring to the mineral here. Come to think of it, I'm not even sure if an iron deficiecny causes stress.
The iron I'm talking about is't the kind you pump either. You just have to plug it in, make it hot and shove it around a flat surface.
And, when done proactively, it can be downright meditative.
I stumbled on this yesterday. By a crazy mis-mash of events my otherwise harried day, I found myself standing in front of my ironing board with two of my shirts and two of my husbands' that I had just pulled from the dryer.
They were crinkled to bits - almost unrecognizable.
My impulse, as it has always been, was to throw them on hangers and put them in our closet as is. I would iron them if, and only if, they were about to be worn.
Reactive, I know, but ironing something ahead of time seemed right out of a "Leave it to Beaver" episode.
That would certainly explain the vivid memories I have of my Mom, ending her day down in the laundry room, smoothing out the wrinkles in our clothes. What I didn't know what that she was also ironing out the wrinkles in her life.
With the house uncommonly quiet and all of the other laundry folded and put away, I thought, "Heck, why not? I don't have anything else to do?" - a statement I haven't uttered since my college days, I'm sure. I revved up the iron and, as I waited for it to get scorching hot, I
smoothed the fabric of my husband's shirt across the fabric-covered board.
As I worked the steaming little device across the right front side, then moved to the back, I pondered everything from my kids' readiness for their finals to the national debt crisis.
Soon, I had lulled myself into a sense of calm that I haven't known since the dishwasher broke and I was forced to wash the dishes by hand. With my hands submersed in the warm suds, I felt centered and peaceful. And my nails never looked better.
When my husband came down to retrieve his shirts, not a word was exchanged, although I thought I could hear him mumble, "Nice job, June."
Now where did I put those pearls...?
06 Jun, 2011--
Source: http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/plate-spinning-101/2011/06/iron-therapy-a-real-stressbuster.html
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