Slow Life

Today I'm reveling in my embrace of the Slow Life movement.  I have always been here, but without a cohesion as to my philosophy.  Food, clothing, parenting - all of these things seemed somehow connected, but without a term or general direction.  I'm not good with labels.  And yet, this one does pull so many things together for me.  I'm not into organics for reasons others are.  I don't cloth diaper because I'm a "hippie."  I don't wear clothes from ten years ago because I don't like them or don't care.  I don't have natural cleaning products just to save the world.  My readings of John Gatto and the like aren't just to be different and get attention.  Indeed, Being Slow strikes me as the most natural way to live.  Why would it get any attention?  I see everything I do and think and say can been seen through a Slow Life prism.  I'm not lazy.  Ha!  I'm not unproductive.  I don't value the faster, more disposable, more-more-more lifestyle.  This way didn't fit when I saw some of my behaviors and ideas as some thing people on the left would do.  My reasoning certainly doesn't fit with the things that I share with those on the right.  Go ahead, leave me behind.  I'm happy being behind.  I'm not even so much old-fashioned on the things that might appear old-fashioned.  I'm slow.

Bartleby

The Bartleby Project

I would prefer not to take your tests.

I would prefer not to think someone's else thoughts.

I would prefer to learn and to teach my own curriculum.

I would prefer to sculpt my own life.

I would prefer to grow and discover and dream and think and feel as a human and not as a human resource.

Inpatient

My son has been admitted inpatient for a month.  Driving back and forth from the hospital gave me time to reflect on this blog.  I've been hesitant to share much of my Untethered Adventures recently, waiting for something of substance.  I think I may have been remiss.  I suspect that this blog can do me some good to have a place to put all the things we experience.  While this is a public forum, I pause about how much I want public.  Even so, I think there is a place for anonymous information.  I do want the whole world to know some aspects of what life is like for us.

I do want to share some of my more radical thoughts, that I have to withhold from the medical team.  I don't agree with the institutional model of thought so predominant in medicine.  I am not revealing anything in particular with this post, but rather reflecting on the direction of this blog.  We'll see where I go from here.