02/06/2026
I feel like we spent most of our time answering the question,
"How are you? What's been happening recently?"
"Aw, you know. Just busy."
Sometimes that means busy doing nothing. What I call "doing nothing" is usually filled with thinking, planning, pottering, scrolling, remembering, and just being. Those things take up space. They occupy a small part of my brain all day. Take the 5 bananas that sat on our kitchen counter for a couple of weeks. Instead of tossing them, I committed them to the idea of becoming banana bread. This for me means that I now have a tiny fraction of my brain that is permanently occupied by a running list: look up a banana bread recipe, buy whatever ingredients I'm inevitably missing, don't accidentally bin the bananas, this recipe calls for 2 bananas, now I need to double the recipe. This, all before I get to the practicalities of actually pre-heating the oven.
Anyway, life lately has been, as you'd expect. The days disappear into a steady cycle of work, errands, half-finished plans and small intentions finally being followed through. Spring is turning into summer. The evenings are stretching out a little longer. Plants are growing faster than I remember to water them. And, eventually, the bananas did become bread.
