In future blog entries down the road I will talk about how we can have a life of health, wealth, and happiness. The idea of wealth today lies in having abundance. Regardless of our finances we have a cornucopia of skills, strengths, and abilities that can help us live our lives well.

The book above I read in 5 hours straight. I recommend that you rest between reading the chapters in Rest is Resistance.

The author is the founder of the Nap Ministry. Her book is short. Her life’s work of righting the injustice of capitalist “grind culture” is rooted in Black Liberation.

In the book Hersey attests that resting as a form of resistance is for everyone in society not just Black Americans.

The fact is every worker of every color and creed should not live to toil in servitude to corporations that put profits before people.

We should create our own value system that prioritizes being not doing as the indicator of a person’s worth. The myth of needing to be productive at all times I haven’t been a fan of either.

Hersey advocates for taking naps. She is against influencer-peddled methods for resting that only perpetuate that you should “rest up” to be able to get more done the next day.

Hersey is against capitalism as it exists today as it was founded through the forced inhuman 24/7 labor of enslaved Africans on plantations.

In the coming blog entry I will talk about my firsthand experience with napping and resting and taking breaks. To show you how I as an Italian born in America prioritized my mental and physical health long before reading Rest is Resistance.