Work less, produce more.
I’m never so enthralled with still imagery, as when I flâneur and resist the yoke of doing something.
“Doing nothing, is doing something.” – Rando Sage. Big Sur, CA.
Suggested reading:
How to Be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson. Cult classic from the aughts. Worth revisiting today.
Sometimes it feels as if I have a fighting spirit, with no justified cause. What justified cause there may be now, involves staying home. And gardening. Wasting less. Producing, consuming, and investing with conscience. Nurturing.
Problem being that I was not raised to nurture. Schooling and competitive culture both channeled into a loop of run, hunt, and exploit.
Nurturing seems right, especially now, but feels unsettling. How do I fight by doing less or nothing, and if active, no harm? On a superficial plane, I get it. But I don’t know how to be this way.
This is why I take one day each week, as a Secular Sabbath Day. I read theology, philosophy, sacred texts. Myths, and natural origins. I’m trying to learn how to be nurturing and adaptive.
Rationalism doesn’t quite fit. This could be ineffable. So, faith? I don’t know. My ignorance is a ghost, that I had better learn to accept and be friendly with.
We’ll take it from here.
Coffee and tea. Street beverage vending machine. Morioka, Iwate, Japan. Shot with Nikon FE2 and Silberra Ortho 50 film.
Demand-pull or supply-push? Armchair economists want to know, because even they work at home now.
Coffee vendor waits for customers. Morioka-shi, Iwate, Japan. Nikon FE2 and Silberra 50 Orta black and white film. November 2019.
Devotion to craft and service. Making a lot out of small spaces. Do one or a few simple things right. There is much to learn from how small business makes its way in Japan.
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