🧺 The Yoga of Housework
My latest book takes on Marie Kondo at her own game.
I used to think chores were a chore.
The bed to make. The clothes to wash and dry and fold. The dishes. Every dang meal. It’s not uncommon for me clean the same cup twice in a day. Then there’s the vacuuming. And the bathroom. How often is not often enough?
One of my first jobs is as a dish pig in a popular café.
I’m a day-one employee. Unskilled. B- is my supervisor and teaches me some useful tricks. Bunch all the cutlery in my hand and brush, rather than one fork at a time. Then into the steriliser. I get very good at doing dishes. Too good. New employees get sent straight to the coffee machine: that’s my dream job! I ask why it’s not me. I receive a slice of wisdom that I will wrestle with till the end of my days.
Don’t be good at something you don’t want to do.
Several years ago I have a Damascus experience.