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January 27, 2024

Siren Song Society: Profound Boredom – Authentic Leisure – Existential Liberation

offer these connections to encourage people to be okay with boredom–to not see every break in labor or in study or in whatever as requiring us to find something to amuse ourselves into utter alienated distraction. Continue reading

February 9, 2014

Food Friends Family Faith–A Lost Dream

Wonderful little article that reminds us that the American Dream once centered on working less and having the leisure to enjoy the things that actually matter: among them, food, friends, family, and faith. Now that lost dream shows the foresight… Continue reading

February 13, 2013

Textimony 20130213

Fretfully making, busily doing, absent the leisurely stretch that birthed Mona Lisa; heedless we run, without time for thinking’s yawning abyss: profound boredom. Continue reading

February 12, 2013

A Lilting Life: At Leisure in the Great Dance

“It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the… Continue reading