Christmas greetings to you, dear friends. A quick note to wish you all a wonderful and peaceful holiday period. Work is finished for the year, and we are relaxing in anticipation of family get-togethers in the next couple of days.
This year’s Christmas art features a wombat with a bunch of different local Canberra landmarks, for something a little different.
Oh… and I finally finished that blog post I was wrestling with the last time I wrote to you!
Fast or Slow? You get to choose!
This year, I have been exploring what it means to wrap a philosophy of slowness around my life. I haven’t posted about it as much as I had expected, but that’s ok! The focus continues, and I am here to update you now.
The concept that has been messing with my head for the last six months is that some things cannot be slowed down. I mistakenly and very naïvely thought everything could be slowed down to a more manageable pace. Wrong.
Not everything can be slow, but conversely, not everything has to be fast. Certain things fall into either end of the spectrum, and there is a whole range in which many things lie. I could not fathom how to create a slower life knowing this. I had hoped that there would be a straightforward way to bend everything to my will (yes, you can stop laughing now) or that there would be a simple delineation between the two. Predictably, I got myself tied up in knots.
Then I found this passage:
Ahhhh! Lightbulb moment!
May your days be merry and bright! See you in the new year