It was like housework, which consists of tasks that, by design, get undone every day. Every day there are dishes and laundry. Sweep the kitchen floor, take out the garbage. Every day get the mail and sort it. Every day read and answer email. Every day wash the body. The bathroom gets dirty; clean it. Vacuum and wipe the floors and the furniture. Clothing gets outgrown and tattered; barbers and dentists and doctors must be visited. No time for deep attention, just a thousand tasks.
