The Practice of Doing One Thing

One thing: the letter, the onion, the bead, the paragraph. Not as a productivity system. As a refusal to let every act be a corridor to another act. Wild Oat wants all the roads. Impatiens wants them faster. One thing is a different weather.

You will fail. The fetch is the practice, as in japa. Come back to the onion.

Multitasking is sometimes necessary. As an identity it is a way of never arriving.