The ‘slow movement’ is a cultural shift toward slowing down the pace of our hectic world. The goal is to take better care of the planet—and of one another.
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Everyone loves a spoken story. There’s something about the immediacy of this exchange that feels soothing and deeply connecting.
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Have you ever been asked to tell a joke, sing a song, or recount a story on the spot when you didn’t feel prepared? Did a surge of awkwardness overtake you, along with a desperate desire to melt into the floor? Did you get mad and protest? Worse yet, did you painfully comply, hot-faced and mumbly, feeling anything but genuinely willing?
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Whenever I’m challenged in some area—sleep, mood, work, creativity, focus, relationships—I find it incredibly helpful to look at rhythm. Before I had children, I liked to think of myself as a “free spirit,” easygoing, unbound. Until panic would hit. I got through college and my early work life with all-nighters, fits and starts. But once I had a baby and a toddler, it became clear to me that there can be shackles in ‘freedom.” It’s like that line from the song Desperado, “Freedom? Ah, Freedom. That’s just some people talking…”
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We live in a culture that fears a gap and over-values constant talk as though we’re all DJs on the radio who never can allow any “dead space.” It can be a luxury, then, to take part in a living pause that lets us relax, observe and appreciate the wonder of a growing human being.
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