Shedding the Energizer Bunny Costume
What is your inner pace of life? How do you honor it and keep it from being overwhelmed by today’s distractions, digital and otherwise?
slow living
How did it get so late so soon? Nurturing our relationship to time
I’m reminded of a friend who, as she was in the last stages of colon cancer a few years ago, told us that she had stopped wearing a watch and had covered up the clock in her car. “Who needs another reminder of what time it is? I know what time it is when I leave the house, and any place I’m going has a clock somewhere.”
Making Hay While the Sun Shines
The Shallows, Part III: Making Hay While the Sun Shines I’m still a farm girl at heart. The county where I grew up has a population density of six people per square mile, and I was one of three student in my class through eighth grade. Most of my summers were spent either reading or …
Jonathan Franzen: “The place of stillness”
“The place of stillness that you have to go to to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make responsible decisions, where you can actually engage productively with an otherwise scary and unmanageable world.” ~ Jonathan Franzen