A Talk with Katie Kitamura: On Uncertainty, Midlife, and the Beauty of Boredom (Tricycle)

“I’m at an age where we’re preoccupied with the care of our parents, with end-of-life care. With getting our children settled in their lives. Mortality no longer feels like something that happens to other people. I’m feeling that I’d like to experience time more. When I turned 40, I thought I really wanted to slow time down. Not in the sense of not aging but in the sense of being more present, of being bored in the way I was as a child. I miss that boredom, because it’s so productive creatively.” 

Read the interview here.