Doing Nothing Can Be Really Something

So focused on being productive, we’ve lost the ability to sit and think. Or just sit.

Sitting and thinking. But mostly sitting. Photos by the author

My brain was going 90 mph the other day, ruminating on a long to-do list alongside things I wanted to do, all with zero motivation to think about any of it, let alone ambition to actually do anything. I wandered around the house, listless, distracted…