This year, I have resolved to be nice(r) to people. You see, I have a terrible confession; I can, at times (a lot of times) find myself being mean and nasty about people, often other drivers when I am in my car, I criticise them for being too slow, too fast, not changing lanes, being [...] Read more »
About Time: The Slowest Film Ever?
In old Zen stories Enlightenment rarely occurs in the meditation hall, it happens in the strangest of places, with often the simplest things triggering the experience. I am not suggesting I attained enlightenment in the Buddhist sense (some days I think I am about as far from enlightened as it is possible to be get), [...] Read more »
Slow Life Lessons From Jason Statham?
Who would have thought that Jason Statham would be an advocate for the Slow Movement? Yet, I was perusing Youtube the other day, watching TED talks and School of Life videos (is it procrastination when it is educational?) and I stumbled across these old adverts from 2003 where Jason Statham, before he became the massive [...] Read more »
A Celebration of Ulysses – The Slowest Book Ever Written
This is a post I have been meaning to write for some time, but never seemed to get round to it. So since it is Bloomsday today, I have forced myself to get it out there. What am I on about? Well for those of you that are uninitiated, Bloomsday (16th June) is the day [...] Read more »
Don’t Buy Something, Just Sit There
Our brains do an odd thing. If we see, hear or do the same thing over and over again, we stop paying attention to it. We desensitise to it. This is called habituation. Have you ever gone into a room and thought, “something is different, but I am not sure what?” and then someone tells [...] Read more »
Why I Meditate
My mind goes at about a 1000 miles an hour. Always has. It’s exhausting. It is why I talk so much and so fast, it is a sort of escape valve to release the buildup of thought pressure. Thoughts and ideas come in and go out of my head so fast I can’t grab hold [...] Read more »
A Pocket Guide For The Flaneur Of Life
So, I accidentally wrote a new book – “A Pocket Guide For The Flaneur of Life”. I have been working on an update to my “Mindfulness Meditation Demystified” Guide when inspiration struck and I wrote this book instead! What Is A Flaneur of Life? The term Flaneur was coined in 19th century Paris, to describe [...] Read more »
Attention! Attention! Reconnecting With Time
Where does all the time go? You would think I should have known better. I have been practicing mindfulness meditation for almost 20 years. I have embraced the Slow Philosophy and work every day on becoming a Flaneur of life, treating it like a stroll and drinking in the detail. Endeavouring to become unhurried and [...] Read more »
TKB V 3.0
Oh there you are. I have been waiting for you… Well, it has been awhile. Far longer than expected or anticipated. I know this is a Slow Blog, but it is a bit ridiculous. So, what has happened? To understand that we need to do a little history. TKB Version 1.0 Version 1.0 of this [...] Read more »
The Deckchair Diaries – Spring 2013
The problem with writing a block or trying to be active on the myriad of social networking sites out there is you tend to “blogify” (or “twitterify” or “facebookify”, or “socialnetworkofthemomentify”) your life. You are constantly looking for ways to spin experiences into a pithy, fun or informative posts, comments or tweets. You start to [...] Read more »