I won’t be posting here until the middle of August. We are going to England and Ireland. Kristin Steiner, my ever talented wife, is teaching for 6 days at Oxford Summer School. I’m tagging along, we’ll stay with friends in the Cotswolds afterward and then go to Ireland for 4 days. Kristi taught there last [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Going Techno Free
Posted in Culture, Life, Living Slow on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Stewarding Ourselves
Posted in Culture, Life, Living Slow on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last year I gave a talk to the annual meeting of the American Planning Association. This is a big meeting with 30 or so concurrent sessions. My topic was stewarding yourself. It had nothing to do with building skills, enhancing what you know – the typical reason you go to a conference. So I was [...]
In Praise of Slowness
Posted in Culture, Life, Living Slow on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Carl Honore wrote “In Praise of Slowness” about 3-4 years ago. It is a wonderful read, lots of compelling reasons to slow down, and makes you wonder at how we live today. You can listen to a 20 minute video presentation of his (if you can’t slow down enough to read the book!) that captures [...]
Reconnecting Baby Boomers
Posted in Culture, Life, Living Slow on July 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am sure the rest of the country gets tired of all the boomer talk. But I am one, so it is what I know, and what I talk about. I am convinced that as boomers retire they are going to get back to their roots. What might those roots be?
In our formative years we [...]
Work to Live
Posted in Culture, Life, Living Slow on July 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Film producer Michael Dryhurst had this to say about a movie he filmed in Italy. “Shooting here is just so much slower. The Italian crew works hard during the day, but come 5 or 6 o’clock, that’s it. They don’t even want the overtime to keep going. It’s a whole different philosophy of working. In [...]
Retreat to Advance
Posted in Culture, Life, Living Slow on July 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It took probably 5-6 years for me to get up the courage to leave a secure job to go out on my own. One of the steps along the way was several years when we spent a summer week in Maine. It was remote, completely in touch with nature, devoid of the franchise food, gas [...]
Orvieto in Bon Appetit
Posted in Culture, Living Slow, tagged Culture, food, Italy, Travel on July 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The May 2008 issue of Bon Appetit is the travel issue. In it Los Angeles chef Alex Palermo cooks up a meal in Orvieto using local ingredients. The food is served in a palazzo with great views of the cathedral. The menu includes white pizza with rosemary and sea salt, pasta with favas, peas with [...]
Adventures?
Posted in Adventures in Italy Teachers, Culture, Living Slow, tagged Adventures in Italy Teachers, Culture, Italy on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We are not skydiving, swimming with sharks, extreme mountain biking. There are no adrenalin pumping, heart pounding activities. So where’s the adventure? It is a different kind of adventure – adventure in self discovery, in unleashing latent talents, in finding one’s potential, in aligning oneself with what’s at your core.
It begins sometime in your 40’s. [...]
