Instead of stressed I lie here charmed
I’ve spent several hours of the past two nights sleeping on the floor. Not because of visiting guests or temporary domestic dysfunction, but because of my particular commitment to what I suppose I shall call Method Hobbying.
When I get into, or back into, an activity - tennis, cycling, swimming, running, canning, baking - I get very into its accoutrements. I research (and acquire) the Best Thing for the Thing.
And then for some amount of time - weeks, months, very occasionally years - I get Extremely Into the Thing. But though I have exactly the right gear, I do not always succeed at maintaining the interest. Or the time. Or the energy. Or the willingness to be terrible at something.
So here I go again, on the floor in an attempt to match the gear (a sleeping bag, a sleeping pad) to the will (to forgo running water and electricity and a mattress in the name of communing with the outdoors / supporting the passions of people I love).
It is hard to fall when you are already on the floor, which helps when you lie awake thinking about journalists being murdered because they held powerful people to account.
Listen:
Drogas Wave by Lupe Fiasco [Apple Music | Spotify | Tidal]
Splendor & Misery by clipping. [Apple Music | Spotify | Tidal]
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