“Washing dishes, I give myself the chance to remember that ordinary isn’t the enemy but the bedrock upon which the rest of experience ebbs and flows.”
“Life hacks, multitasking, the ruthless compression of our daily routine: We still frame the ordinary as something that exists only for the thing beyond it, as a hazard to be optimized away instead of an organism to be nurtured and interacted with.”
| Letter of Recommendation: Washing Dishes - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/magazine/letter-of-recommendation-washing-dishes.html