Butterflies in the Phlox

 

Butterflies like my phlox

Took this photo just the other day before the front porch.  It seems a fitting photo after finishing How to be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson.  I recommend it highly.  See my previous post.  The book was unexpectedly inspiring given how funny it was.  Reading it was a wonderful use of time, as wonderful as taking time out to take a photo of a butterfly.  Hodgkinson helped remind me just how absolutely important it is to make time for me and my bliss, which involves reading, writing, and photography.  Unfortunately, I am a working stiff, and the company (actually a college but more like a company every year), seeks new ways to steal my time for its own nefarious purposes.  It wants us to multitask like our students, the “millennial” generation, multitask.  I hate multitasking as much as I hate simplistic labels for entire groups of students who are as diverse as ever.  I’m not one for doing more than one thing at a time.  I have a hard enough time doing anything at a time, especially when that anything is something that’s preventing me from doing some one thing that I enjoy.  Sometimes, like Bartleby (which Hodgkinson cites), I prefer doing nothing.  Sometimes nothing is really something special and good for the soul.  Be happy!