“Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It’s best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.”— Rebecca Solnit While it may appear to some as a waste of time, French literary critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve thought the act of walking with no destination in mind, and for no particular purpose, was the “very opposite of doing nothing”. In fact, aimless walking in 19th century Paris was so respected, those who engaged in it even had a name: flâneur. To aimlessly walk the streets of Paris, doing little more than observing the crowd, frequenting the boulevards, cafés, parks, and arcades, for no other purpose than to frequent them, was elevated…