Niksen

Won’t see me posting literal tree hugger articles too often.  But I like this idea of “doing” nothing.  I don’t speak Dutch, but it seems reasonable to suppose the niks part of it is related to the Germans “Nichts”, in which case a more or less literal translation is nothing-ing.

We all need to do nothing sometimes.  No schedule.  No plan of attack for our relaxation. I will wonder aloud again if it is perhaps their Day of Rest which has, at least in some measure, made the Jews so creative.  That, and 3,000 years of cultural natural selection, in what has been a hostile environment for most of it.