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Holly & Susan's Winner is.........

Submitted by Samantha Hunter on Fri, 2008-08-15 12:16.

KAELEE!
Congrats -- and thanks Holly and Susan for such a great, fun blog day. :)
Sam
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Savoring the Experience

Submitted by Samantha Hunter on Mon, 2008-08-11 13:49.

Does it ever feel like things are moving too quickly these days? Why is there so much focus on speed? I admit, life has slowed down for me a bit, being home and setting my own schedule, and I enjoy it. I don't know if anyone has ever heard of the Slow Food Movement, but it's something I've tried to incorporate into my daily life for a long while now. The basics are described nicely here:
Slow Food is also simply about taking the time to slow down and to enjoy life with family and friends. Every day can be enriched by doing something slow - making pasta from scratch one night, seductively squeezing your own orange juice from the fresh fruit, lingering over a glass of wine and a slice of cheese - even deciding to eat lunch sitting down instead of standing up.
I have taken this to heart with food, and it does make a big difference in the quality of even a simple meal. Gardening is one of the things that taught me that sometimes you have to go slow -- I've waited up to three or four years to see a plant really root to its spot and bloom. I've seen the difference recently in how that can happen in my writing, too - how an idea matures and becomes different if I let it sit for months and not weeks. In fact, it changed my perspective on writing such that I have become an even pickier reader -- the sloppiness that comes with speed seems to be more apparent to me now, and the books I come across that really hold my attention are fewer but wonderful when I find them.
So how about the Slow Reading Movement? How about Slow Writing? I'm with Kevin Costner from Bull Durham on the "long slow kisses that last three days" thing -- what if we approached everything we did like lingering meals and long slow kisses?
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