This passage is from her 2007 book The Maytrees:
She took pains to keep outside the world’s acceleration. An Athenian marketplace amazed Diogenes with, “How many things there are in the world of which Diogenes hath no need!” Lou had long since cut out fashion and all radio but the Red Sox. In the past few years she had let go her ties to people she did not like, to ironing, to dining out in the town, and to buying things not necessary and that themselves needed care. She ignored whatever did not interest her. With these blows she opened her days like a pinata. A hundred freedoms fell on her. She hitched free years to her lifespan like a kite’s tail. Everyone envied her the time she had, not noticing that they had equal time.