🐌 slow and soft

going slow, taking my sweet time and reminding myself to don’t feed into a culture of urgency. there is no need to rush

by Barbara · updated 4mo ago

Sasha Chapin reflecting on living a laptop life (filed under Relatable)

Among the mistakes is my decision to live a laptop life. You know what I mean: I am a laptop person. Everything happens in this rectangle, this sparkling jewel of modern industry. Here is my work, much of my play, much of my social life, all flickering and disappearing at 60Hz.

from Make Something to Learn More About What's Inside You by Sari Azout

Barbara added 4mo ago

Barbara added 4mo ago

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Barbara added 4mo ago

Imagine trusting your body so much, that the ebb and flow of your energy levels are never a cause for alarm, but more a cause to embrace the natural variety that your own body expresses into the world. Trusting that your fallow periods would be followed by periods of doing, simply because it is in your nature to ebb and flow.

Barbara added 4mo ago

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

Barbara added 4mo ago

"To do the work, we need to rest, to read, to reconnect. It is the invisible labor that makes creative life possible."

Barbara added 4mo ago

"Nostalgia is proof that you are living a life worth living. It is a privilege to yearn for your own memories"

Barbara added 5mo ago

Cashing in for short-term pleasure leads to long-term agony.

— Ray Dalio

Barbara added 5mo ago

Slowing down allows you to disconnect from the frenzied pace buzzing around you so you can begin moving at your own pace. The moments we choose to live in fast-forward motion then become a conscious choice rather than an involuntary action.

from Doing Things Slowly

Barbara added 5mo ago

the inconvenience of convenience

12 cards · by sari and

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