When Nothing Is Everything

The importance—and challenge—of doing nothing in a can’t-stop, won’t-stop world

We have a well-loved deck of Uno cards that bears the stains of our travels—they are all variations on the same theme with the ring of tempranillo from our two weeks in Mundaka, Spain joining the blob of red nero d’avola from our time in Sicily. We keep it in a rumpled Ziploc bag accompanied by an equally crumpled scoring pad where we keep tally of vari…