What We Keep Coming Back To

Everything written here comes back to the same few things. A day off and the guilt that comes with it, a life with enough in it, toast, the phone, Sunday night, and the people who turn up. Here they are, one shelf each. Start with the one that sounds most like your week.

• Doing Nothing, Without the GuiltRest that doesn't need a reason, even when the guilt turns up.
• A Simple Life, on PurposeWanting a smaller life on purpose, and a job that stays a job.
• Enjoying the Little ThingsToast on a plate, and the other good things we eat standing up.
• Checking My Phone Without Meaning ToThe hand that goes looking for the phone, and what it finds instead.
• Sunday Night Dread, and Other Things at 3amSunday dread, and the argument you keep winning in your head.
• Strangers, and the Friends Who Turn UpThe people who turn up, some for thirty years and some for one night.