The new feeling is s-l-o-w. It’s certainly not positive when it comes to the economy, but other than that, perhaps your work life and life in general are not currently moving as fast as they once were.
Do you like slow? Or do you miss fast? How comfortable are you with slow? Is too much slow driving you bonkers?
This economy gives us opportunities for new lifestyles - from frugal to unemployed. So while we’re at it, we might try out “slow.”
Here’s homage to several quirky movements out there that are grounded in “slow.” They intrigue me.
Most know of the Slow food movement. Advocates state that fast food is destroying not only our health but our traditions. Slow food advocates like chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse in Berkely, CA, believe food should be local, organic and seasonal. I like all of this, but it’s old news (three decades old.)
Maybe we should have a slow blog movement, Andrew Revkin suggested last year in a post in the NYTimes blog DotEarth. Andrew found out quickly that there already was one. The slow blog movement is a rejection of “immediacy” as written by Todd Sieling in the Slow Blog Manifesto. Slow blogging has been compared to meditation – it’s being quiet for a moment before you write. Some slow bloggers post once or twice a week, sometimes they can go a month.
One of Revkin’s readers had a clever response in the comments section, “Slow blog? Isn’t that called a newspaper?” We’re getting off topic. The slow movement dates back to 2006. It’s old, too.
Really there is slow everything - slow planet, slow design, slow world. It’s described beautifully in a January article in the NYTimes - all part of the slow life movement.
Slow has always been around. If slow feels new for you, no doubt you were moving too fast to know about all this. So now you know - welcome to slow.
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