Slowness and Memory

Now that it is June I can feel the pace of things picking up: a wedding this weekend, a vacation to Maine in a few weeks...and Victoria and I looking to make the most of these warm weathered months - swimming, hiking, gardening, camping, and all that good stuff. 

But this year I am really looking to overcome the sensation of chasing and of trying to squeeze things in because it has dawned on me that all my efforts around trying to do more actually lead me to experience less. 

In class this week I shared the quote by French writer Milan Kundera who describes "the secret bond between slowness and memory, and speed and forgetting."

And it is hard to ignore the correlation between the unfathomable pace of the modern world - and the rapid rise of memory related struggles and illness.   

And though I am not yet old, I am getting older and I would like to remember the details of not just what I was doing - but how it looked....how it felt...and what it was all like. 

So I have been reminding myself: Slowness is what allows my experience to leave a deeper impression.