I am a big believer in slowing down and taking time to enjoy life. With the opportunity to live on Kauai and experience the Aloha pace of life I appreciate the benefits of being more in tune with the flow of nature and more at peace with the simple things in life. Our family takes the time to eat together and enjoy each others company. We often opt to do less, spending time talking or going for walks in nature. Enjoy this present moment and take the time to smell the flowers.
The following is a excerpt from an article about the slow movement.
(CNN) — Edgar S. Cahn is fighting for your right to be lazy.
The slow movement backs random acts of slowness, such as turning off the BlackBerry or spending time with friends.
Other activists might devote their time to reversing global warming or saving the whales. But the 73-year-old attorney is battling to preserve a commodity that he says is more fragile than the environment and more precious than oil — time.
Cahn is a leader in the “slow movement,” a national campaign that claims that speed kills. Its leaders say that Americans are so starved for time, our need for speed is destroying our health, families and communities.
They say we live in a culture in which being overworked has become a status symbol. Cahn created TimeBanks USA, a nonprofit group that treats time as money, to put the brakes on people’s high-velocity lifestyles.
TimeBanks members barter blocks of time known as “time dollars.” One member may, for example, buy groceries for a stranger in exchange for someone else walking their dog.
“Time is the most precious thing we have,” he says. “Every hour you live, you never get back.”
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