Twiddle Your Thumbs and Kick Up Your Feet

It's National Nothing Day!

This un-event was created by newspaperman Harold Pullman Coffin and was first observed in 1973. The goal of National Nothing Day is "to provide Americans with one national day when they can just sit without celebrating, observing, or honoring anything."

Edward Hopper's People in the Sun appear to be doing nothing in particular, just sitting, reading, and sunning—the perfect way to celebrate National Nothing Day.

Pictured: Edward Hopper, 1882–1967, People in the Sun, 1960, oil, 40 3/8 x 60 3/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.