April 27, 2009 issue
Slow is good — very good
By Melodie DavisIn just the seven months since the stock market began to plummet … even those with a regular income are reassessing their spending habits, perhaps for the long term. They are shopping their closets, downscaling their vacations and holding off on trading in their cars. If the race to have the latest fashions and gadgets was like an endless, ever-faster video game, then someone has pushed the reset button.
Melodie Davis writes for Mennonite Media in Harrisonburg, Va.
— Shaila Dewan in The New York Times, March 10, 2009
I’m rethinking my own fast-paced living. After living life at what sometimes seems like warp speed, slow can be very good.
Slow is a good old road trip in a car.
Slow is a walk.
Slower still is a walk with a toddler.
Slow is a stew simmering all day in a crock pot.
Slow is waiting until your honeymoon to consummate a relationship.
Slow is incubating a baby for nine months.
Slow is waiting for your infant to fall back to sleep as the hands on the clock creep to a quarter after, half past, a quarter till, and then a whole hour or more goes by as you rock and hold your wakeful child and you think, oh boy, I’ve got 18 years of this. And then the next time you wake up, it is 18 years later.
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