Most days we rush through small jobs without thinking about them. We fold a shirt, wipe a mark, hang a coat back up and our mind is already on the next thing. I do it too. But on our trip to India, Pierre and I walked into a public laundry in Fort Kochi and it made me slow down. The place is called Dhoby Khana Public Laundry. Fort Kochi has layers of history in it and one of those layers is Dutch. The Dutch took control of Kochi in the 1660s, after the Portuguese and parts of
