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There is a crisis in the first world. So many of us are too rushed. We are busy bees. There is no time for languid afternoons of tea and cake by the riverbank. No […]

The brilliant minds at www.adbusters.org are taking a deep breath and a long exhale this week. It’s Slow Down Week (January 15-21). What are you planning to do to slow down this week?

Adbusters would like to know what you did, and so would we. Feel free to comment.

Here are just a few recommendations:

1. Have […]

I was horrified when I read the headlines, “For many in Spain, siesta ends.” How could such a civilized thing end? Have the Spanish gone mad? Do they no longer recognize the extravagant boon their history has bequeathed them? Going home in the middle of the day for a nap, or at least putting your […]

Here is an article about multitasking from the Health Sciences Infomation Service, Alaska’s Medical Library. They take a dim view of it up there. And quite rightly so.

It was an epiphany. Tea is clearly the poster drink of slow lifestylers, but doesn’t tea deserve its own site? Here it is http://www.teamadness.com.

I have only just got this going so apologies for reproducing one of the stories on this site.

Slowly,
Christopher

Forty hours is long enough
For toil, and strain, and strife
It’s really all too rough
This so-called working life

All work can make you such a bore
So put your feet up and relax
But don’t feel guilty, if you ignore
Email, phone, and fax

Christopher Richards 2005

4. Bone Idol

My mother worshiped me when I was a child. She called me bone idol. I don’t know why she didn’t refer to be as a gold idol or a demigod. But there you are, children can’t fathom the depths of mothers’ minds.

I was always perplexed at her seeming frustration with me. “You just […]

Listen to “Against the Clock” from the Big Ideas program from Australian National Radio here:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bigidea/stories/s1455696.htm

Here is the summary from their site:

Summary
For those who feel the pace of life is getting faster by the minute, for those who are overwhelmed by their workload and fear it’s only going to get worse - squeeze this program […]

Must we suffer for art? I did this evening. The Missus and I went to the Pacific Film Archive to watch “Cats, Bugs, and Perverts: The Films of Martha Colburn.”

I should have been warned when the Missus read out the bombastic write up. “Her visual spew of punk rock poetry and corrupt collage, rendered […]

According to The Washington Post and China View, the United States leads the world in mental illness. I wasn’t aware that we were in a global competition for the “Most Bonkers Nation.” Apparently we are the winners. We love to be number one.

How did we manage this victory? Could it be the pace of life […]