Getting off the ‘time highway’: reconnecting with the rest-of-nature through the wheel of the year

Cocooned in metal, hurtling down the time highway, we become spectators rather than participants in the world around us. The landscape blurs into the background as scenery, rather than a crucial, living, breathing part of our existence. Our focus narrows to what’s ahead of us, to what needs to get done.

This speed and insulation creates an emotional... See more

as Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee shares in Emergence Magazine, “We cannot change the world through a mental construct. We cannot change the world through words alone”

Caught in the fast lane of a time highway, I feel time rushing past me like the landscape through a side window. Moving ever onwards, I fret I’ve missed an exit, the route to time better spent. There are exits that give me the chance to leave, yet I only take them as a brief meandering detour before speeding back into the flow of traffic that pulls... See more