In our dynamic language, words are created everyday, and "unbusy" is making inroads as a lifestyle to look at. Calm down, take time, relax, pour a cup of tea -- these are all more imaginative, descriptive ways of counteracting our stress-induced society, one that promotes using every minute effectively or mentally punishing oneself for being lazy.

But it is not lazy to decrease our busy-ness, to seek out a moment of being unbusy for nothing more than a cup of tea, a moment of respite, a time for and to oneself. Midday Tea, which takes the viewer back to a simpler time and place, invites us to remember a time when being busy wasn't the primary definition of being a human being.

Midday Tea, the original oil painting, is sold.