slowing down as a punk act of rebellion

Maybe Slow-Fi makes its so we are more intentional, more grounded, more tethered, more invested, more attentive, more open, more inquistive and more exploratory with how we use, manage and operate our "Financial Wealth" artifacts (with the other artifacts being Tradeable, Measurable, Rankable, Nameable and Polymorphic) - and that it makes us much m

slow living as a portal to becoming one with the rhythms of nature

When we are deprived of green, of plants, of trees, most of us (though evidently not all of us) succumb to a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological or neurochemical malady, until one day we find ourselves in a garden or park or countryside and feel the oppression vanish as if by magic.

— Robert Harrison: Gardens: An Es