Tag: leisure
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Forgotten Millpond
“The sea, calm as a millpond, without a ripple, was breathing slowly but deeply” Georges Simenon – The Mahe Circle, 1946 We don’t write well anymore because we don’t have the time to absorb our surroundings We must catch the train plan the weekend work 8 hours a day plot an escape cook…
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Leisure not work is our true calling – Betrand Russell in Praise of Idleness
Not long ago leisure was held in greater esteem than work. Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, De Tocqueville and more recently Barry Jones all saw work as a necessary toil but something to be avoided, it was leisure not work that lead to great insights, true understanding and wisdom. From the quiet contemplation of one’s surrounding, the passive absorption…