The Power of Leisure

The ability to be at leisure is one of the basic powers of the human soul, says Joseph Peeper. Leisure can be cutting down trees or learning another language, camping or restoring old cars,. riding poetry or knitting, running marathons, riding horses, or walking the beach with a medal to sleep. William Osler told aspiring medical students that when chemistry or anatomy distressed their soul to seek peace in the great pacifier, Shakespeare.