The fabric of life that gives us stability!! … “Ordinary isn’t the enemy but instead something nourishing and unavoidable, the bedrock upon which the rest of experience ebbs and flows. Embrace this … Mike Powell, An Ode to Washing the Dishes (NY Times Magazine, June 4, 2019).”
Ordinary isn’t the enemy but instead something nourishing and unavoidable, the bedrock upon which the rest of experience ebbs and flows. Embrace this — the warm water, the pruned hands, the prismatic gleam of the bubbles and the steady passage from dish to dish to dish — and feel, however briefly, the breath of actual time, a reality that lies dormant and plausible under all the clutter we pile on top of it. A bird makes its indecipherable call to another bird, a song from a passing car warps in the Doppler effect and I’m reminded, if only for a moment, that I need a lot less than I think I do and that I don’t have to leave my kitchen to get it.
– Mike Powell, An Ode to Washing the Dishes (NY Times Magazine, June 4, 2019)
Notes: Quote Source: Extraordinary Routines. Photo: Medium
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