How to find inner peace:

There's something about an orange... Have you ever picked up an orange and held it's coolness to your face while staring into the bright but comforting whiteness of a clothes dryer while sitting on the cool cement of a cluttered basement? There's something to be said for oranges mixed with clothes dryers.
So here is your ulitmate (well, sort of) guide to finding inner peace in objects that you take for granted. Or just in objects, depending on how you already see the world. It's not perfect, but don't knock it 'til you've tried it!

Oranges
Let me tell you, when you have something not perfectly round but comfortingly pocked in your hands, true happyness is but a thought away. The color may be bright, but when you have a good orange, the color is so pure that it just blows your mind. Even a small dent or a scar in the skin, if not permiating, simply adds to the soothing texture of this less than perfect sphere.
Navel oranges work as well as any other, but the little navel of this orange just barely hints at the delicious taste inside, the jucy succulent flesh of the fruit. Labor must be put into opening the hinted secret of the orange, but if you have patience, the rewards out-distance the work. Of course, after staring at it long enough, after reveling in the ever-present outside beauty of the orange, on feels a certain loyalty to this fruit, a feeling that you wouldn't want to hurt it in any way.
The star at the end of the orange from which it was born and grew is a sign to us that the stars have blessed this magical fruit and it will reign forever in our land, to reward us for our labor and to punish us if we are not careful. The orange knows us, it teaches us patience and joy and even how to share. We must learn all we can from this elated fruit, the orange has much to give as we have much to gain from it.

Clothing Dryers
Dryers. The one thing that we could live without, but our lives are so much more enriched by having them. We could put our clothes outside to dry, but what about an item that we need tomorrow, when it's 9pm? They are the one invention that we should not have to live without.
Have you ever crawled in your dryer? The bright white inside, beckoning you to expirience the warmth it can provide. I don't reccomend turning it on of course, but if you want to pull the clothes out for just a minute, it's the greatest. Still warm from them. It provides the saftey that small spaces do, and the real warmth of a hug, as you have to hug yourself to get in there (I hope).
Dryers provide happyness and wealth. They give people who do not have their own a thing to call home. They provide people with quarters a wealth of dry clothes and those without, a wealth of quarters. Happyness comes from that sense of being wealthy, a sense that also comes from warmth, another great thing that a dryer provides.

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