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Medical issues and age (86 in November) have made slow a necessary part of my daily life. I mean really<\/em> slow. I have worked hard to accept this inevitability. Still, it is difficult to feel the increasing estrangement from the world’s increasing addiction to speed. I find less and less valuing of slow at any level. But when I do, I find myself savoring it like a slow-cooked meal.<\/p>\n I have recently stumbled across a book that I am now reading. The title is The Art of Slow Writing<\/em> by Luise DeSalvo. While I used to enjoy reading fast, that is no longer the case. So, I am reading this book slowly, very slowly. Early on she quotes from a poem by Eve Merriam: “It takes a lot\/of slow\/to grow.” I’ve taken this up as a mantra.<\/p>\n I did not want to wait until I finished this book to alert you to it. But from what I have read so far, I recommend it highly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Medical issues and age (86 in November) have made slow a necessary part of my daily life. I mean really slow. I have worked hard to accept this inevitability. Still, it is difficult to feel the increasing estrangement from the world’s increasing addiction to speed. I find less and less valuing of slow at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1858,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}