down the avenue: It's All about Slow Baby

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Only Those Who See the Invisible, Can Do The Impossible
The Age of your Heart is the Age of what you Love - Marcel Prévost
Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I'll understand.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one opening before us. -Helen Keller
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. -Leo Tolstoy
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. -Paul Tournier
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. -Carl W. Buechner
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The foolish reject what they see, the wise reject what they think
Imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstein
When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you - Lao-tzu
The world surrenders to a quiet mind
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December 22, 2005

It's All about Slow Baby

I'm reading In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honore, who writes in that informal, flowing style that I love so well. Then again, I do have a soft spot for Brits....oops, he's a Canadian living in London.

Honore recounts everything that is fast and why it is killing us. Having said that, he optimistically reports various examples of how and where a Slow Revolution is taking place around the world.

I tend to read too many books simultaneously, which makes it difficult to finish any one of them, at least in a reasonable timeframe......Hell, I haven't even launched my west coast book group team yet. I plan to write quite a bit about the book and my thoughts around 'slow' and what this really means to us as a culture, as a species and more.