Kicking off the first summer of a new decade, I thought it appropriate to share some thoughts about leisure. Leisure, as I've come to understand it, isn't much what you think it is. In fact, when you take a nice long look at it, you find yourself handicapped by vocabulary. We simply don't have enough words to examine leisure's many facets with much precision. This leaves our thinking vague, which is too bad because if we understood leisure better, we might enjoy it more, and more of it. That would make the world a better place, which is plenty of reason to write about The Discipline of Leisure.