Goodreads giveaway!
REST will be out in just over two weeks, and to celebrate, I'm starting a Goodreads giveaway. I'll be giving away ten autographed hardcover copies of the book.
The alchemy of publishing
So this showed up in my timeline this morning: REST by @askpang came in last week! Design, #lettering and #illustration, plus inspired some changes to my creative practice.
Off to Europe next week
I'm spending this weekend with family and dogs, and starting to get things together for my first REST-related trip abroad. I'm going to be in London to promote
Packing this weekend
Among other things I'm doing this weekend (mainly related to my son's rugby career, it seems) I've got pack and get ready for my Big European Tour: I'm
Sabbaticals, work-life balance, and leisure vs. idleness
Bowdoin professor Kristen Ghodsee writes in the Chronicle Vitae about her experience on sabbatical in Europe, and how that life compares to American academic culture: I still worked
“My busyness was actually laziness”
Just as work and rest are partners (as I argue in REST), so too are busyness and laziness actually linked in ways we don't always recognize. Writer Abigail Murrish
When taking a vacation is good for democracy
Slate reports on the Post-election plans of campaign staff and journalists. tl;dr: Almost to a person they're going to take some time off, and try not to think about
“some of history’s most creative… took rest very seriously”
Author and adventurista Janice Holly Booth has an article on AARP's Life Reimagined Web site that does a fine job of explaining what to do if you "Want
Gender and the benefits of flexible working hours
Flexible working hours are good, right? The give you a greater degree of control over your own schedule, so you can take time off to pick up the
Imported contemplative computing posts
Clowns of Cambridge, where I first started thinking about rest while working on contemplative computing I spent a little time this morning and imported posts from my contemplative