Tag: slow living
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Dear reader from the future, I’ve been reading a book about people in the 80s and 90s and thought about how different they live out their days from mine. And then it made me think further about how you might also be spending your days differently from mine, inspiring me to write about how I…
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For six months, I’ve been listening to the birds sing every morning. Sitting in the backyard, reading a book, I often see birds perched on nearby plants, probably curious about my presence. We would size each other up, trying not to move as if we could make time pause as we meet eye to eye—then…
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When asked about what’s next, I begin to imagine things like leveling up (in finances and time flexibility) and accomplishing a Herculean task. But why do we always want to become something more? When do we stop wanting to have more? Would we ever stop? It feels like to be happy in our short lives,…