{"id":2840,"date":"2020-11-05T05:35:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T05:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/11\/05\/of-e-mail-and-doing-nothing\/"},"modified":"2020-11-05T05:35:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T05:35:03","slug":"of-e-mail-and-doing-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/11\/05\/of-e-mail-and-doing-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Of E-Mail and Doing Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c026be420dace200d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dolce far niente\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c026be420dace200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c026be420dace200d-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Dolce far niente\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13pt;\">I do appreciate e-mail, and I consider it rude not to respond; but lack of time and energy in synergy with congenital inefficiency conspire to make it difficult for me to answer everything. I am also temperamentally disinclined to acquiesce in mindless American hyper-kineticism, in accordance with the Italian saying:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><em>Dolce far niente<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Sweet to do nothing<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">which saying, were it not for the inefficiency lately mentioned, would have been by now inscribed above my stoa. My paternal grandfather had it emblazoned on his pergola, and more &#39;nothing&#39; transpires on my stoa than ever did beneath his pergola.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">So time each day must be devoted to &#39;doing nothing&#39;: meditating, traipsing around in the local mountains, contemplating sunrises and moonsets, sunsets and moonrises, and taking naps, naps punctuated on one end by bed-reading and on the other by yet more coffee-drinking. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Without a sizeable admixture of such &#39;nothing&#39; I cannot see how a life would be worth living.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do appreciate e-mail, and I consider it rude not to respond; but lack of time and energy in synergy with congenital inefficiency conspire to make it difficult for me to answer everything. I am also temperamentally disinclined to acquiesce in mindless American hyper-kineticism, in accordance with the Italian saying: Dolce far niente Sweet to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/11\/05\/of-e-mail-and-doing-nothing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Of E-Mail and Doing Nothing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[406,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-of-life","category-slow-down"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}