It is quite clear that we live in an anxious time. Individuals are anxious, the culture is anxious, everyone is on edge. Amongst other things, I believe this is a spiritual problem, I also believe that proper leisure - understood & attained - can help us ease some of that anxiety, if only briefly.

Leisure is grossly misunderstood, especially in the West. It’s equated to laziness, denial & neglect, which is far from what it actually means. In an attempt to clear up some of these assumptions I wrote a short essay on the topic; The Leisurely Manifesto:

Four Fourths

The Leisurely Manifesto

“But originally, it was included in education, because nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well.” - Aristotle…

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But as I kept investigating the topic I realized that this idea deserved much more than an essay, so that essay became a book; The Art of Leisure.

And now that book has led me into a rabbit hole of infinite other topics. Some of which I will be writing about here in the newsletter, and others that I will be saving for future books as well.

I hope you all are well.

Leisure As Liturgy

The Art of Leisure; The Book