Yet housekeeping actually offers more opportunities for savoring achievement than almost any other work I can think of. Each of its regular routines brings satisfaction when it is completed. These routines echo the rhythm of life, and the housekeeping rhythm is the rhythm of the body. You get satisfaction not only from the sense of order, cleanliness, freshness, peace and plenty restored, but from the knowledge that you yourself and those you care about are going to enjoy these benefits.
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
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 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…
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.
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.
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…
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,…
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.
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