How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell, Melville House, 256 pp. While I was living in Bronxville during college, I would regularly walk a trail along the Bronx River, beside the fast moving highway. The trail went for a long while. Once I biked it for about two hours, finding myself several towns over and not at the end. Most of the time, I would stroll around a section of the river slowly, either by a circular path or by crossing the lone bridge. I would sit on a bench with a book sometimes, observe changing leaves or notice pigeons. While not a site of drama in those frantic few years, this trail was a place I returned to over and over. This patch of greenery alongside an industrial highway was a place of centering for me. Why is it unusual to consider as significant these places and practices that sustain and hold us? Having them and slowing down makes so many other things possible, after all.
Starting to Pay Attention
Starting to Pay Attention
Starting to Pay Attention
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell, Melville House, 256 pp. While I was living in Bronxville during college, I would regularly walk a trail along the Bronx River, beside the fast moving highway. The trail went for a long while. Once I biked it for about two hours, finding myself several towns over and not at the end. Most of the time, I would stroll around a section of the river slowly, either by a circular path or by crossing the lone bridge. I would sit on a bench with a book sometimes, observe changing leaves or notice pigeons. While not a site of drama in those frantic few years, this trail was a place I returned to over and over. This patch of greenery alongside an industrial highway was a place of centering for me. Why is it unusual to consider as significant these places and practices that sustain and hold us? Having them and slowing down makes so many other things possible, after all.