Doesn’t this look like a nice spot to sit and read a book or just watch the clouds roll by? My pal and I spotted it on our way out of the National Museum of the Coverlet and we agreed that it looked peaceful.

And yet, it never occurred to me that we could stop to sit there.

Sitting idle is difficult for me. I often admire those people in cafes who are peacefully reading a book or the folks who are just sitting on a park bench as though there’s no place they would rather be.

There’s just so much to see and do in this world, I want to go see it all. And yet, I want to be a person who sits on benches too.

Author Richard Kadrey famously said “Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.”

Maybe we shouldn’t discuss how his theory applies to me!

Do you stop to smell the roses and sit on benches or do you prefer to be on the go?