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Oregon Cleaners - Coggle Diagram

- - - - I sympathized with the clothes. I was determined. I will find you a home!
- - - - Understanding the other person more. Understanding the stories.
      - Appreciating the stories.
      - I don't judge: I don't like it when people
        
        There's a part of the story that I don't know, and I will never know. But I know that; accepting the world, I'm more at peace
        
        What I see is not everything
        
        Trying to understand.
        
        a garment can be imbued with meaning or experiences beyond its aesthetic
        
        There was an ID card of a woman: who was this woman? Where did she go wearing such magnificent clothes?
        
        Let's find this buddy a home
        
        I discovered that Laura-Jean was a grandmother, who'd died of cancer three years ago.
        
        Most people had moved away.
        
        Just like every clothes had a story, every one had a story
        
        Clothes are supposed to attached to a body - the absence of a human form makes them stand out
        
        Elsewhere too, abandoned clothes can be a temporary territorial mark. On cinema seats and restaurant chairs, coats are placeholders. There is an unwritten code, telling us that an empty seat is not really empty if there is a coat draped across it.
        
        Stories were everywhere, ready to be captured
  - - - But the limitless amount of stories that these clothes could hold held me in their thrall.
        
        Why do people bring clothes to a dry-cleaner.. to be thrown away? never to collect it..
- - - - The simple, droning work of dry-cleaning gave me a sense of peace and comfort.
        
        Striving after individuality