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Dear Reader,
The world seems to be speeding up, but I want to slow down. In fact, currently, slowing down is at the top of my daily "to-do" list. I actually write it down in the number one spot every morning. I can keep up with the best of them, and in the past I have, but I've decided that I enjoy life more and my body seems to function better at a slower speed.
Slowing down is actually more difficult than speeding up. Folks who manage to find joy and success in the slow lane should get a gold star, or a plaque to hang on their wall. Not only is it a challenge to move at a slower pace, there's always "somebody" who gets tense when I do.
For instance, yesterday when my husband and I were driving back home from the nursery, we couldn't go over 25 miles per hour. We were pulling a trailer behind our car filled with plants for my garden, and if we drove any faster the wind would have shredded the leaves. My husband commented, "This is what it must have been like riding somewhere in a Model T." Then he sat back and enjoyed the scenery, pulling over every now-and-then as a courtesy when a string of cars formed behind us.
But then "somebody" got tense and ruined the moment. It would be much less humiliating to report that the "somebody" who got tense about us moving so slowly were the folks behind us. But I must confess, that the scenario of angry motorists grumbling about how slow we were moving--it was all in my mind--an imaginary tale because I'm still learning the art of slowing down.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
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