Here's how my Brooklyn kitchen typically looks:
Get off the kitchen table, Donna. Donna, get down!
Once again, the dishes need washing up, especially the big dirty pot from last night's dinner, and I haven't swept the floor yet. I saw a cockroach this morning. Again.
This is just one example of how I'm always falling behind in life. Also left undone are the overdue phone call to my moms, the unanswered emails, friends unseen, books unread, writing projects postponed. Plus, I'm always running about ten minutes late for my day job. It's enough to make you mental.
There was a time in the summer of 2000 when I spent several months living in the Cevennes Mountains of France. I keep trying to get back to that time, only do it here in Brooklyn. A time of silence, hours to write, leisurely morning coffee while reading a novel, an hour of stretching and breathing, no computer, no phone, no television. Most of the time, I only had two other people for company, and we ate home-cooked dinners every night.I taught myself how to make chocolate mousse with just three ingredients: bittersweet dark chocolate, cream and egg whites.
That's my ideal. Having said that, I was practically celibate that summer, and now I'm having loads of sex, so there's something to be said for a fast-paced life.
3 comments:
what about the sugar, sugah?
Well put! I need a summer of silence. Alas, the job....
yes, well, if you come up with a way to have utter tranquility in an environment of no outside pressure PLUS loads of sex, then you'll get a sure-fire bestseller, loads of devoted followers, and a gold star from me.
But then again, you probably won't care about any of those.
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