Fast Track to Slowing Down

Gordon's at the Garden

What in the world are you up to? I mean, it's been two years since your last post, and it's not like there were a lot of posts in 2014! Yeah, I know. Kind of like my so-called journal. It's not like I have a blog following, or reason to post. In fact, this might just turn out to be starting essays for future books of the same title. I write when I feel the inspiration, which is why I could not do this for a living. Well, these three little lovelies are the reason I've been gone and why I've returned. I moved from the Fast Track to only God-knows-where, to the lanes of slowing down to savor and flourish. April 11, 2016 to be exact. That was the day I looked up from a low, low spot and said, "There is a better way and I'm going to find it." A better way to be "successful", a better way to be a "young up-and-comer", a better way to "save the world or die trying". So far, it's worked out. I will remember more of those little smiles my kids provide me daily. I will come up with better solutions to problems I've re-conceptualized in my work. I will expand my positive spectrum of light and drown out the darkness of committed-too-much-and now-i'm-tired despair. I'm not afraid to put it out there. I mean, it's been 6 months now so I can be a little more certain it's a "change". Slowing down did require a lot more effort than I expected. Remarkably, what I've found is that the "slow" lane is kinda like the moving walkway at airports: a lot less effort put in but you end up moving at a faster pace than everyone else because you're getting help. More smiles, more love, more energy, more time to embrace my journey and the people that make it all worthwhile.