What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity, beauty, the conditions for health and safety, and a good place to do and feel all the things you wish and need to do and feel in your home. Whether you live alone or with a spouse, parents, and ten children, it is your housekeeping that makes your home alive, that turns it into a small society in its own right, a vital place with its own ways and rhythms, the place where you can be more yourself than you can be anywhere else.
Yet housekeeping actually offers more opportunities for savoring achievement than almost any other work I can think of. Each of its regular routines … - Cheryl Mendelson
Yet housekeeping actually offers more opportunities for savoring achievement than almost any other work I can think of. Each of its regular routines …
- Cheryl Mendelson
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ev… - Cheryl Mendelson
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ev…
What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity,… - Cheryl Mendelson
What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity,…
I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I… - Cheryl Mendelson
I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I…
We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time. - Cheryl Mendelson
We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.
I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked. - Cheryl Mendelson
I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.
So many people imagine housekeeping to be boring, frustrating, repetitive, unintelligent drudgery. I cannot agree. In fact, having kept house, practi… - Cheryl Mendelson
So many people imagine housekeeping to be boring, frustrating, repetitive, unintelligent drudgery. I cannot agree. In fact, having kept house, practi…
I am a working woman with a secret life: I keep house. - Cheryl Mendelson
I am a working woman with a secret life: I keep house.
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