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Living life at 60... beats per minute
For me, a symbol for living at a decreased pace is to set a
metronome to 60 beats per minute — in musical terms, largo,
lento. In English, R E A L S L O W. At 60
beats per minute, you can experience each note; its beginning
and its end; its life process, its inner beauty... |
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Deena
Berke, is a founding member of the
Ecovillage at Ithaca, where she has lived for eight
years. She was a participant in Second Journey's May
Visioning Council, which was held at Summer Hill Farm in
Sherburne NY. Because of her dual interests in music and
healing (reflected on her article), she plans to attend the October 13-16 Visioning
Council on
Health and Well-Being in the
Second Half of Life, which will be held at the Wildacres
Retreat Center in western North Carolina. |
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The Great Good Place:
Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars,
Hair Salons,
and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
by Ray Oldenburg
Marlowe & Company, 1999 |
Books
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In the absence of informal public life, living becomes more
expensive. Where the means and facilities for relaxation and
leisure are not publicly shared, they become the objects of
private ownership and consumption...
Ray Oldenburg is an urban sociologist from Florida who writes
about the importance of informal public gathering places. He
argues that bars, coffee shops, general stores, and other "third
places" (in contrast to the first and second places of home and
work), are central to local democracy and community vitality. |
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“The
Wisdom of Elders”
A call for
articles, poems, art and photos
The Ecozoic Reader published by the
Center for Ecozoic Studies (CES) in Chapel Hill, NC,
styles itself as a journal of “Critical Reflection, Shared
Story and Dream Experience of an Ecological Age.” In his
article, the Reader's editor,
Herman Greene,
invites submissions of articles, poems, art and photos
for a future issue on “The Wisdom of Elders.”
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The author,
Laird Schaub
