The Office of Temporal Offerings
We deal only in non-serious transgressions: the dish left overnight, the reply sent to all, the last biscuit taken without a show of hands. Greater matters are outside our catalogue, and, we are told, outside our faculties.
The seal of this Office, pending a more particular identification of the Office itself.
Venial, from $19.99 plus shipping
Two remissions, a third at half
No questions asked, and very few answered
Shop by the nature of the fault
Each instrument is written in the old style. Photographs of the papers themselves will be hung here when the illuminator returns from wherever it is he goes.
Dishes, laundry, and the climate of the house.
Open this drawerReplies sent too widely, and silences kept too long.
Open this drawerSmall discourtesies among the living, at table and in rooms.
Open this drawerThe last of a thing, and the manner of its taking.
Open this drawerLanes, spaces, and the brief theatre of getting home.
Open this drawerPresently marked down
Imago mox adest
Likenesses of the instruments themselves are presently being illuminated and shall appear in due season.
Digital & Correspondence
For: Replying to all
For the epistle that travelled farther than affection required.
$76.00 $38.00 plus shipping
Imago mox adest
Likenesses of the instruments themselves are presently being illuminated and shall appear in due season.
Table & Pantry
For: Eating ice cream from the carton
For the spoon in the carton, the carton in the light of the open freezer, and the fiction of a bowl.
$44.00 $22.99 plus shipping
Imago mox adest
Likenesses of the instruments themselves are presently being illuminated and shall appear in due season.
Domestic & Household
For: Leaving the dishes until morning
For the basin left in its estate overnight, and the morning that found it still there.
$39.00 $19.99 plus shipping
Imago mox adest
Likenesses of the instruments themselves are presently being illuminated and shall appear in due season.
Transit & Commerce
For: Using the ten-items lane with more than ten
For the extra tin, the melon that counted as one in the heart and two in the law, and the face that did not look behind.
$69.00 $34.99 plus shipping
Imago mox adest
Likenesses of the instruments themselves are presently being illuminated and shall appear in due season.
Social & Company
For: Double-dipping
For the chip that returned to the bowl, and the company that saw it.
$39.00 $19.99 plus shipping
Imago mox adest
Likenesses of the instruments themselves are presently being illuminated and shall appear in due season.
Transit & Commerce
For: Parking a little over the line
For the wheel that crossed, the door that could not open, and the hope that no one would need that space.
$64.00 $32.50 plus shipping
I purchased remission for having used a fork as a comb. I still used the fork. I simply minded less.