Saturday Cleaners

From Your Saturday Cleaning Leader:

We had an amazing cleaning crew of 5 today. They worked so hard that I thought they were double the number of people. 

Ashlee Williams came after her night shift at the hospital and started at the top and went to the bottom. She worked on the bookstore, front desk, library and shoe area dusting near the ceiling and washing walls. Ashlee went on to dust the bookstore and library as well as clean the entire shoe area and front desk. I’m sure that I missed some of what she did because I was in the gompa.

Bob Brown was a whirlwind of activity the entire time. He came to clean the center in lieu of his yoga class and got quite a workout. He swept, vacuumed and mopped the front desk area, library, bookstore, children’s room and shoe area and totally cleaned both bathrooms. In between all that he did some other tasks, but I couldn’t keep up. 

David Strevel came to take pictures of the workers and stayed to brush off the cushions in the gompa as well. He got some action shots too.

Joanna Smith came out of the blue and worked in the gompa with me (Suzy Boehm). We each saved at least one sentient being from death-by-cleaning. I swept and mopped the stage and cleaned the front area and altar rug before Joanna arrived. We both took off in a literal cloud of dust moving cushions and furniture, sweeping, mopping (Joanna did most of that), and straightening and cleaning the pews. As icing on the cake, Joanna moved all the tray tables and mopped under them.

We may not have finished all the quarterly tasks but we accomplished more than expected given our number of cleaners.

Kind readers, please consider attending the next quarterly cleaning to build up merit and friendships. We all benefit so much from a tidy Kadampa Center.