Pastime

"One could do worse than be a swinger of birches"  --from the poem "Birches" by Robert Frost.

In the same vein, one could do worse than idle away an afternoon scouring
a rocky coast in search of seashells.
Such simple pursuits can transcend time, and, when in an hour of need,
restore a small measure
of sanity to mankind's wonderful, wacky existence.