Tom Dolan sent me this excellent column to which I said simply yesYou Deserve A Month Off / Our columnist returns from a modest hiatus, realizes we are all working way, way too much
My friend Tracy, whom I’ve been traveling with comisserates with the the Europeans regularly on this point (or rather, they extend their sympathy to her).
She says simply “I had to quit to get a vacation.”
Two weeks is how long it takes simnply to stop twitching. You need more than that to relearn how to relax. To walk slowly. To breath to the bottom of your lungs. To hear your own voice.