Slow Living: How To Gear Up

divinecaroline.com:

When you're busy fulfilling the urge to be everyone's everything all the time, there something incredibly restoring to closing the door, waving the white flag, and being unproductive.

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Comments

[CaveatMagnusFrater]

Why does this article use the exact same photo as "How mood mapping helped me beat bipolar disorder"

[Bernadette Noll]

Or perhaps "shore up" would be a good term. I totally love the idea of tuning out the world in order to find presence with the family. I don't think snuggling up in bed is the only way to slow down however. I think the goal is to find the slowness and the connection in all we do. If we are home with our kids, be with our kids. If we are at work. Be at work. If we are eating a meal, then by all means, sit down and connect with the food itself and the people around the table with us. I have learned just recently that I can actually turn off the phone when home with my partner and family. That way there is no buzzing distraction calling me off for false emergencies.

http://www.slowfamilyliving.com

[Shawn de Montaigne]

"How to slow down to gear up"? Are you kidding me?

This "Divine Caroline," or whomever she is, has missed the point entirely. But I shouldn't be surprised: suburbans like her are always casting about for yet new ways to continue with their invasive, over-the-top lifestyles, the earth be damned.

Slow Living is about downsizing, de-suburbanizing, and, most of all, tossing off the gear she exhorts we "gear up" with.

Yet another poser on a site that seems to publish only posers....

[redsongia]

step one: get off the internet.

[antaeus]

"Slow Living: How To Gear Up"

Shouldn't that be, "How to Down Shift"?