Dolce Far Niente

The sweetness of doing nothing

There’s a famous scene in Eat Pray Love. Julia Roberts American character, finds herself complaining to a handful of Italian friends in a barbershop that all she has done in her three weeks in Rome is eat and learn a few Italian words. In her eyes, nothing substantial, nothing genuinely tangible. Her Italian amici describe her, as an American “You don’t know how to enjoy yourself…