Can you let boredom bite this summer?

19 July

During term-time so much of our lives is timetabled, that we become accustomed to the routines of activity – this thing now, that thing after. We do not have lives where we can ask ourselves what do I feel like? How would I like to pass my day? So this is what our summer holidays will be for: to remember how to design our own lives. To float through the day, attracted to particular pastimes, foods, friends. To allow boredom to surface, and stay feeling it long enough to see what happens next…

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