literature

I discovered a new ideal bench today at the park. It's a small bench enclosed in a circle made of big flower pots. In the middle of the circle there is a round big flower pot full of wild flowers. Red poppies, yellow daisies and some other white and pink flowers I can't put a name on.

My mood is not ideal today. And the weather is cloudy, overcast. Far away I see the zoo and I can hear the birds of the park, the usual crows and magpies uniting their voices to the more exotic ones of the zoo birds.

Enclosed in a circle of flowers and pots, I feel trapped into the vicious circle of thoughts. 

On the first day of June it was warm and sunny here. I thought I should take my book and go read it on the nearest bench. All the ideal benches were occupied today, it seems that I wasn't the only one who wanted to enjoy the sun after such a taxing winter. Happy to see so many people welcoming their freedom, I went for a walk and didn't bear them a grudge for not leaving a bench free for me. 

The ideal bench, the book is here 

Despite its title, the book The ideal bench is not a carpentry manual. It's not an essay on woodworking but it offers some immaterial tools for the art of life and contemplation. 

The ideal bench 

What is this book about? It is literature. Thoughts for all seasons sitting on a bench. Description of all kinds of feelings in all kinds of weather and much more.

It is this time of the year again. If it's cold outside and you can't sit on a bench, at least you can read a book and feel as if you were. The ideal present for Christmas!

You can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088B3MPT8?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Photo at the Parc de la Pépinière, Nancy, France 

The ideal bench was originally written in Greek. 

Here it is:  

https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Lito-Seizani/dp/3753115681/

Even in these most uncertain of times, you can take a seat and read your book. "The ideal bench" will help you spend some pleasant hours and make you think about things that matter. 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088B3MPT8?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Surely you want to leave your troubles behind you for a few minutes. Why don't you select your ideal bench and take a breath of fresh air?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088B3MPT8?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Photo by sailaway photography

A book for flâneurs and philosophers of all ages. For travellers, for wanderers, for dreamers. A book for ideologists. A book for sensitive, gentle souls who know, however, how to taste the best part of life.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088B3MPT8?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Thoughts for all seasons, thoughts about human beings and animals, about love and careless youth, thoughts about married life, about all sorts of encounters, about the change of destination and also about Theseus's robbers...

Photo: Ira Zannidakis 

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