Exploring Cornish Edges on Zierle & Carter's DIY9 |
I've been trying to
slow down a bit, to enable me to think more clearly and have a bit
more time to let things percolate and simmer. So I'm trying to
survive on less 'work' in order to be more time rich. It's a tricky
balance. But utterly necessary right now. I've also been trying to
be more tied to place. To London (as that's where I am). Or, if I
travel, to stay longer... It's something to do with being more
rooted. More thoughtful. More considered. More present.
Somewhere on my reading
travels this week I came across this:
“In times of coercive
politics and transnational terror, slowing down so as to learn to
listen anew is a necessity...The question is not so much to produce a
new image as to provoke. To facilitate, and to solicit new
seeing.” Trinh T Minh-ha, 'Still Speed'
I scrawled it down so
have no idea where it's from (how's that for slowing down).
It's hard to slow down
in London.
On the other hand, an
evening or two ago my cousin gave me a link to some writing on
procrastination, so I figure I must be doing something right...
Someone else at least can perceive my go-slow antics.
Procrastinating/Going
slow.
Perhaps I'm just coming
into sync with the hedgerow in prep for the summer...