Slow Down: for Words and Dreams

When I light the candles for the afternoon gathering of books and blankets and baskets of read alouds, they come too with creativity, their yarn and needles, weavings and colors, paints and journals ... and the hours find other time, the lungs a new air.
































I read the stacks, Caddie and Little Threads, and dreams takes to the the page, inspiration to the yarn, and for a long, long while, while I turn the pages and the tales, I can't feel the world spinning on its axis, the orbit of the galaxies.

It's slow time.





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.... a few slow down prompts from Ann Kroeker's latest book: Not So Fast: Slow-Down Solutions... ... could you pick just one today?

~Find a slow setting and gather with a book: Curl up in front of the fireplace, pile unto the bed, spread an old quilt out on the grass

~ Read poetry aloud at breakfast, short stores at lunch, or novels after dinner

~ Find a classic and gather together

~ Create: while listening to read alouds, or online audios, create with the paints, the yarns, the pencils ....

~ Make a space for words and dreams


For more slow down prompts, consider reading Not So Fast: Slow-Down Solutions...

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