Ode to My First Full-Time Day at Home with Out a Bunch of Stuff to Do
Wanna hear something funny?
-I can’t watch Six Feet Under on DVD right before I go to bed or I’m up all night trying to do spiritual direction with the characters.
-I’m depressed because the kids are back in school and I’m realizing that I really hate housework, but that I’m also scared shitless to try and write a book….so without the kids I’m stuck with the housework or doing the scary work of actually writing something.
-Today I got writer’s block and did a bunch of quizilla’s instead. My color is Red; if I were a Saint I’d be Saint Francis of Asissi (or possibly Julian of Norwich) and my life as a John Cusack movie would be “Being John Malcovich” (which is just bizzare.)
-Today I spent $55 on one bag of organic groceries.
- Why was six afraid of seven?
Because seven ate nine! (Okay, I thought I should put something actually funny ha-ha in here and that was all I had.)
Whole Foods is REALLY called Whole Paycheck…
Oh please, please write a book! Then come up and do a book reading/signing in Vancouver.
in case you need to pull something else funny out of your hat. What’s brown and sticky?
A stick.
this poem made me think of you! feel free to be made helpless by housework–it may be the path we’ve been looking for according to berry!
The Real Work
It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work.
and that when we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.
-Wendel Berry (collected poems)