I can't be doing nothing.

I like days in which I have nothing planned. Allows me to follow my impulses. When I was a kid, and I was quiet, in another room, my mother might yell, “Jim, what are you doing?’ And I replied, ‘Nothing.’ But mom said I had to be doing something. One can’t just be doing absolutely nothing. That got me thinking. She was right. I may have nothing in particular planned. But I’m always doing something. Even if I’m whiling away time. That’s something. I might be napping. Sleeping. Still, that’s something. Mom may have figured I was too quiet. And that could be trouble. I might be up to something devilish. She better check it out. Especially if I said, 'Nothing.’ –Jim Broede