Can You Stop?

If you can’t be interrupted, you’re missing out.

Les liens du sang (1960), Jane Graverol

For the past three weeks, I’ve been painting the interior walls of my house. I originally planned to pay my brother to paint my house. But my brother is a perfectionist — a slow, deliberate perfectionist — so mostly he’s been sanding, patching, and caulking. After a few days of this, I started rolling walls without…