Fallow

Do you ever feel like taking a day off from everything? Do you ever actually take a day off from everything?!
 
Or, have you ever used the phrase, ‘just sleep on it’? Leave it for now and come back to it later.
 
Can we talk about ‘fallow’ time just as we can talk about ‘fallow’ land?
 
Traditionally, in agriculture, fallow land refers to land which is usually cultivated but which is allowed to lie idle during a growing season in order to restore fertility to the soil.
 
Fallow has its origins in the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) root pel-(2) (to fold, to turn) and Proto-Germanic falgo, the source of Old High German felga (harrow), German Felge (plowed-up fallow land), Frisian falge (fallow, to break up ground).
 
The Old English word fealh (fallow land) appears around 1300. By the 1520s, the word fallow (land plowed but not planted) appears in English.
 
Fallow time. Stop and smell the roses every now and then. 

Reference: Online Etymological Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com/
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