nostalgia for a slower future

She has grown up in an age of instant, infinitely sharable images. For her, the magic of photo booths was exactly the opposite of the magic they’d held for me in my youth. Instead of being a fleeting glimpse of a futuristic world of fast images, for her, they were now a nostalgic relic for a slower, more private era.

Contemplative space is hard to define. Contemplation is generally not a practice that offers immediate jolts of anything. There’s (well, usually) no chatty/ethery response from on high, no neatly cleared path unfurling after a good long think. In fact, more often it feels like “nothing” at all is happening in that open space. The “soft” characteris... See more