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I Praise the Turtle, and the Turtle Reads Dickens

A. Marsman wrote 8 months ago: This week has been chock full (what does that saying even mean?) of things to do, buy, and register … more →

Tags: Outliers, dickens, little dorrit, slow reading, Carl Honore, Reading, Slow Food, Malcolm Gladwell, month-by-month installments

is there a proverb that is the reverse of being the early bird? (or: slow pokes get no grub)1 comment

ungratefuldiners wrote 8 months ago: In Praise of Slow lecture at the Calgary Public Library – our first defeat. Gladys: We went to … more →

Tags: Food, Free Food, Calgary AB, Carl Honore, Calgary, Calgary Public Library, mirchi

2008 Books8 comments

bryanwiens wrote 11 months ago: Every year I try to read a good cross section of books, almost always non-fiction but also disparate … more →

Tags: Literature, CHRISTIAN LITERATURE, Cesar Millan, Erwin McManus, 2008, Carl Honore, The Heroin Diaries, nikki sixx, Punk Monk

• 'Random rant Friday'

jameswatkins wrote 1 year ago: I had my first bout of vomiting and diarahhea following my last of 42 radiation treatments for prost … more →

Tags: Politics, issues, Nebraska's safe haven, Democrats, Republicans

Slow Planet

Thomas wrote 1 year ago: Hi everybody and I hope you all had a great weekend (well a great Sunday anyway since Saturday was a … more →

Tags: slow, Alastair Sawday Publishing, Go Slow England, slow travel, Carl Honore, Slow Planet, slow work, slow design, slow sport

Go Slow England in The Guardian and The Observer this weekend and praise from Carl Honoré

Thomas wrote 1 year ago: Hello everybody and I’m pleased to announce that the official publication date for Go Slow Eng … more →

Tags: slow, England, Travel, Accommodation, Special Places to Stay, Alastair Sawday Publishing, Sawday's, Go Slow England, Slow Food

Dining El Desko

bibliosiren wrote 1 year ago: As my inaugural post, I have decided to tackle a topic that came up at the Ontario Library Associati … more →

Tags: Work, ola, resolution

Aerating Awareness

Deborah Barlow wrote 1 year ago: In Buddhist tradition “the stopping mind” refers to the tendency to fixate on things, id … more →

Tags: What Art Can Do, ART-making, The Art World, States of mind, ArtLife, Transcendence, Aesthetics, language, Art

Roni Horn in Iceland2 comments

Deborah Barlow wrote 2 years ago: Horn’s Library of Water in Stykkisholmur, Iceland Horn has been a “permanent tourist … more →

Tags: ART-making, Search for the Sublime, Favorite Art Stars, States of mind, Current viewing, Transcendence, Creativity, Aesthetics

Getting to Slow

Deborah Barlow wrote 2 years ago: “Slowness” is an international, not solely American, phenomenon. It’s refreshing to see some individ … more →

Art, Music and the Concept of Time

Deborah Barlow wrote 2 years ago: There have been so many comments on these and other pages about how our music would be more “f … more →

Tags: sounds

Making Vision

Deborah Barlow wrote 3 years ago: Gone: the long looking of slow days, the world ordered inwardly by seeing, the act of unbroken priva … more →

Art, deeply and slowly considered

Deborah Barlow wrote 3 years ago: Welcome to Slow Painters, a selection of work by artists who believe in the deeply personal and tran … more →

Truitt: Full Bodied Subtlety

Deborah Barlow wrote 3 years ago: As I walked through the Corcoran’s new permanent collection installation, I bumped into an old … more →

Tags: What Art Can Do, Favorite Art Stars

Music to Live In

Deborah Barlow wrote 3 years ago: Brian Eno’s music piece entitled Thursday Afternoon (1984) was originally recorded for a video of th … more →

Tags: sounds

Marden on Making Art1 comment

Deborah Barlow wrote 3 years ago: I make a very slow painting. Brice Marden … more →

Tags: Quotable, Favorite Art Stars

Decelerating

Deborah Barlow wrote 3 years ago: Decelerate explores the cultural trend of “slowing down” and returning to a somewhat sim … more →

The new slow1 comment

Deborah Barlow wrote 3 years ago: Slow is gradually overcoming its pejorative connotations. Where once it was associated with failure … more →


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