Category: cupid and psyche, cleaning

Sisyphus and his rock

What if it’s less like sorting lentils and grains, and more like Sisyphus pushing the same rock up the same hill every day? The measure of contentment wouldn’t be the rock, then. It would be in the strengthened muscles and lungs and heart, the clarified mind. The gratitude that cleanup isn’t even necessary when the

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wheat | barley | millet | poppy seed | chickpeas | lentils | beans

It seemed an impossible task. Tottering piles of books, papers, cables, coffee cups. Half-finished knitting. Unopened boxes from our move 14 months ago. I knew I had to clean my office before undertaking my next project, but I deeply did not want to. So deeply that even though I forbade myself to start anything major

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elmo rocco

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