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L-Cubed: Life, Love, and Lust. Five Random Thoughts.
This is, after all, a blog. Every post shouldn’t be 1,000 words
“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions — the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
That should be on a Hallmark Card, but it’s true nonetheless.
Leisure
Joseph Pieper wrote an entire book, Leisure, the Basis of Culture, to celebrate the act of doing nothing. Similarly, G.K. Chesterton once wrote of “the most precious, the most-consoling, the most pure and holy, the noble habit of doing nothing at all.” He also wrote: “It’s because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to worship reverently the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.” If leisure is so good, why would we want to deprive those most leisure-prone beings — children — of it? Common sense indicates children ought to have leisure, and lots of it.
Kids and Leisure
Researchers are finally catching up with common sense. “As a society, we have talked ourselves into believing that we have to make every moment count, and that we have to fill our children as we would empty vessels,’ says Kathy…
