Kaley’s Reviews > Seasons of a Magical Life: A Pagan Path of Living > Status Update

Is this person really waxing nostalgic about doing laundry pre-washing machines? I'm totally on board with reclaiming the old ways of doing some things, and I agree that mechanizing every task isn't the progress we think it is. But LAUNDRY? I don't think anyone who had to wash a family's clothing/linens by hand all their lives would miss it.

It's really weird to read this after reading Sharon Blackie - so much of the re-enchantment chapter specifically is rehashing Blackie's work from a pagan perspective. It's interesting that Ballard references the "magical thinking" line from The Enchanted Life; that book is obviously foundational to this line of thinking, yet this necessarily leans into the "woo-woo" that Blackie frowns upon.