The Hamlet Project

Every woman, too, hath business and desire –
Or at least, every woman I know. I can’t make sense of a person without some business even if it’s only to wash the dishes. Taking on one’s business and desire seems to be the task of adulthood. You start taking care of business – sometimes in the name of your desire. Sometimes you chase desire with all the ferocity of business and sometimes desire comes upon you like the scent of Jasmine on an afternoon walk, all business, when, poof! Desire wafts by without warning.
Even so, it requires tending to just like business.
Prayer, though, that’s like a step out of the striving of both business and desire. Hamlet sends his friends back into the business of the world while he sets himself up to have that moment out.