Monday, May 5, 2025

Conscious idleness

 Ronald Blythe occasionally forced himself to take an idle day. No answering the phone, no worrying about the important business that absolutely had to be attended to.

I feel wonderfully well — it is the inescapable result of a conscious idleness to feel wonderfully well.

 

I am learning.

• Source: Ronald Blythe, Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside; London: John Murray, 2022, p. 213.

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