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Drawings and stuff by Chuck Groenink.
"Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration — it is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done. “Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do,” wrote Thomas Pynchon in his essay on sloth."
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The Busy Trap,
Tim Kreider.

On the dangers of the way we’ve deceived ourselves that we need to be busy. All. The. Time.
And the alternative. Read this!

I have lots of opinions about this subject, but I’ll just note that I have to say there is definitely a huge difference between Americans and Europeans in this. Everyone in America is always working, and I’m not entirely convinced that it’s all out of necessity.

(via groeneinkt)

Retumbling my other blog, but I thought this was a good antidote to that rabbit telling you to draw.
Although that is exactly what I am going to do now.





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