A Faith To Live By » Fun http://www.afaithtoliveby.com A blog by Neil Powell Wed, 22 May 2013 07:22:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 The ‘busy’ trap – what your endless activity says about you. Great piece in NY Times http://www.afaithtoliveby.com/2012/07/11/the-busy-trap-what-your-endless-activity-says-about-you-great-piece-in-ny-times/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-busy-trap-what-your-endless-activity-says-about-you-great-piece-in-ny-times http://www.afaithtoliveby.com/2012/07/11/the-busy-trap-what-your-endless-activity-says-about-you-great-piece-in-ny-times/#comments Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:05:25 +0000 neil http://www.afaithtoliveby.com/?p=3120 Tim Kreider gets to the heart of our need to be busy exploring what lies behind our endless activity in this penetrating New York Times piece.

Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day.

(HT: David S Harvey)

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(HT: David Chamberlain)

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Clearly the manager didn’t think so. He substituted him just a minute or so later for showing disrespect to the other team. In total he was on the pitch for three minutes! Full report here.

 

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The coolest fusion of blues and rock anthem!

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