“A space for slower thoughts and a fuller life.”
Slow Thoughts
* An “Amber Gambler” refers to a driver who recklessly accelerates to beat a yellow/amber traffic light instead of slowing down, stopping safely, and not taking a risky chance...
Hare desperately needed a double espresso, so he and Tortoise—who wanted to celebrate his win with a large green tea—headed across the meadow toward town, the finish line already disappearing in the...
Imagine, for a moment, a time when patience and waiting were not extraordinary virtues but the default settings of daily life—expected behaviors, even survival skills. Waiting months on end in a...
We live in an age where speed is inescapable, and where people seem almost trained to live fast, at least on the surface. Yet, the demands of such a lifestyle come with an accumulation of side...
Imagine the scene. It’s 1952, somewhere in England, and a young girl—no more than six—sits in eager anticipation, eyes fixed on what appears to be a blank television screen. A moment later, her...
In the summer of 2006, I, along with about fifty other eager undergraduates, filed into a bright auditorium at Concordia University’s downtown campus in Montreal to begin Psychology 280 – Adolescence...
In the winter of 1967, British speed visionary Donald Campbell took to Coniston Water in England’s Lake District with one goal in mind: to go faster than fast. Having already coaxed his jet-powered...
At the heart of this entry is a hopeful wish — one I hold for children today and in the future. Quite simply, I wish that speed does not continue to devour slowness; that slow, timeless time in...
As an enthusiastic long-distance walker and voyager, I have come to recognize the similarities that can be found between a child’s education experience and that of a long journey. A child’s education...