What I want to do, obviously, is retain some small portion of my pre-baby life. What has worked so far is to undertake projects that take fifteen minutes or less, and repeat them every day if at all possible. Piano-playing, yoga and weights, study of foreign languages, this blog: these projects have progressed to some extent. Fifteen minutes a day is ridiculously short, but then again...it's infinitely better than nothing. Ultimately, time has not disappeared with the arrival of this child (though it does seem like it at times). Time advances, slowly but surely, through infinite repetition. Paradoxical but true.
What's frustrating, of course, is that any project that requires two or three hours of concentrated effort simply doesn't happen, or happens very rarely. All this is obvious and completely predictable...however, I am hoping for the impossible--to carry out a few bigger projects over the next six months, even with baby in tow.
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