The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer, UK, 2014
This small book can easily be read in one sitting. It is not a novel, but it is a collection of thoughts on the necessity of stillness – the ability to go everywhere by going nowhere. In this day and age where everyone is constantly hurrying somewhere, it is a breath of fresh air to read that it is okay – in fact, it is encouraged – to sit all day in a room looking out on an unchanging view. The ‘all day’ is an exaggeration, half-an-hour is quite sufficient, but the message is the same: we need to be still to appreciate where we are going; we need to go Nowhere in order to go Somewhere..jpg)
The book is beautifully illustrated with photographs from the Icelandic photographer Eydís S. Luna Einarsdóttir.