| “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished” ~Lao Tzu~ Not every day is a rapids day. Some days the current barely moves. The water is still. Nothing seems to be happening. You wonder if you’re even going anywhere. You are. The slow river is still the river. Still moving. Still forward. Still taking you somewhere. Don’t mistake slow for stopped. The Dude 🐸 Thought for the Day Today, let slow be enough. |
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”~Ferris Bueller~ Everybody’s in a hurry these days. Phones buzzing. Feeds scrolling. Calendars stacked wall to wall. We chase the next thing before we’ve even felt the thing we’re in. Here’s the truth nobody tells you: the…
“You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry. Don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.”~Walter Hagen~ Mama’s got a rule: if it’s pretty, you stop for it. Doesn’t matter if she’s got somewhere to be. She’ll slow her whole walk down for a good patch of wildflowers along the…
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”~ Oscar Wilde ~ There’s a version of you that shows up when you think someone’s watching, and there’s the one that shows up when the fire’s low and it’s just you and somebody you trust. Genuine isn’t a performance. It’s what’s left when you stop performing. People can…
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”~African Proverb~ We live in a world of a thousand followers and a million likes. And yet — most people can’t name five people who would show up at 2 AM if the phone rang. That’s not a knock on…
“Fellowship is heaven; lack of fellowship is hell.”~ William Morris ~ True fellowship has become a lost art in this world. Not networking, not being in the same space as somebody while you’re both looking down — real fellowship. Interacting with your fellows on a human level. That ability hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s still there,…
“Smile, breathe, and go slowly.”~Thich Nhat Hanh~ The calm you find in the morning doesn’t have to stay in the morning. The Dude is working on that one in real time — trying to carry it into the traffic, the noise, whatever Friday throws at him. It’s a work in progress. But it’s worth the…