Sublime

"The Busy Trap" [2012] is a must-read essay by cartoonist Tim Kreider. We are all so busy, perhaps "a way of covering up the fact that most of what we do doesn't matter... Idleness is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done." Life is too short to be busy. https://t.co/cVoMM8145L

When people ask me: Who are you? What do you do? And I tell them — I walk, I write, I photograph, I make books, I run a membership program. Their suspicion is plainly visible: No, but what do you do to survive ? As if the soul itself wasn’t a thing to be nourished. This is survival, I want to say. But instead I say: And from those activities I make... See more

Reminded that this is one of the great literary essays of the century...a creative non-fiction fictionalization of a real person’s artistic creation. https://t.co/m8m0RvR3L2