Daily rhythms
2 years ago
First let me express my intense distrust of the word “rhythm”; words without proper vowels, like words with far too many (“Raoul” in particular makes me wary) just don’t get through my “I’m OK with that” filters.
Now, to my daily- wake up, morning toilet rituals, unload the dishwasher, boil water, all punctuated by stomping up and down the hallway in a ‘three strikes, you’re out!’ attempt to rouse children from beds
- breakfast, check email, lay loose hours vs. tasks plan for day, bathe, dress, help children find a baffling sameness of things, cycle to work
- work – realise utter folly of hours vs. tasks plan
- cycle home, shop on the way, fuss about dinner, homework/music practice/ballet/athletics (all child-related)
- stomp up and down the hallway in a reverse of the morning’s attempt
- veg-out in front of the PC with emails or You Tube or 43 Things or …
- evening toilet rituals, fall exhausted into bed
Other than meditation, sports, music and writing, what’s missing from this scenario?
