23. Patterns
I chose a lyric from this song for the title of the playlist. In many ways, 2024 felt like patterns repeating over and over again - but there were new patterns too. And confusing patterns that for the first time made sense.
The drama of domestic life is, for the most part, predictable. There are people playing roles for which they are more or less suited; there is a delimited setting; there are predefined relationships; there are well-worn actions. We could call this a script. Laura Marling calls it “patterns in repeat.”