Dear Humans,

A few months ago it seemed we never had bowls in our house. Anytime anyone wanted cereal, they had to take a bowl out of the dishwasher and hand wash it. But then we found some bowls at Ross that were plain white and almost perfectly matched our dishes.

And now, we have a whole bunch of dirty bowls, but we still don’t seem to have clean ones when we need them. It turns out the problem wasn’t the number of bowls we had. The problem was that I wasn’t washing them quickly enough.

It’s nice to have stuff. And I’m lucky that I can buy new bowls when I need them. But stuff doesn’t change who we are. Only we can do that.

Sincerely,

Mr. Heimbuck