It is like any home. You have to spend hours talking to each other, discussing minor things, listening to each other's news, just to remain a family. And you have to repair the drains, do the shopping, cook the food, wash up. So much time is apparently wasted. But if one did not spend that time there would be no home, and no family.
Chapters are part of the business of keeping our common home going.
Like breathing or sleeping, nothing much may appear to happen, but if we stopped we would soon notice the difference. Finally, remember Dominic's knife. It is one of the symbols of this Chapter, the knife that Dominic always carried with him. That knife is a symbol of Dominic's freedom. This is the knife of a free man.