I don’t know when I started desiring it. The doing nothing. But even though I want to do nothing it is still difficult to allow myself the luxury of nothing. Just watching the trees. Just looking at the bees as they land and fly and land and dance around each other from one oregano pompom to another. Aerial acrobats on fragrant floral high wires.
Read MoreThe nine days spent in Central America reminded me of many things ~ but just one is the theme for this month ~ the importance of slowing down.
The beach town of Nosara is humid jungle punctuated with thunder and lightning storms and the hooting calls of monkeys. All around us the fecundity insisted that we step back from our normal doingness in favor of the slow - slow food, slow breathing, slow decision-making, slow enjoyment.
Read MoreI was thrilled to hear from Literary Arts that I was one of the 2024 recipients of an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship.
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