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‘World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down’ A Page FromMatt’s Bookshelf
There’s a sound from your pocket. It’s your phone reminding you of the meeting you have at noon. In the meantime, you need to take your kids to school, make it to work, catch up on the constant stream of breaking news coming from the internet, try to do some work, feel guilty about not having time to exercise this morning, and address the next dozen notifications and reminders from your phone and email. We run ourselves ragged every day by being constantly busy, yet we somehow feel like we’ve forgotten something important. Christian McEwen spent a decade training teachers in the art of poetry so they could teach it to their students. She realized we cannot create anything worthwhile when we spend all day spinning our wheels. “World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing
Down” is McEwen’s attempt to identify how we can find ourselves by escaping the frenzy of the world. In her book, McEwen doesn’t demand we isolate from society entirely. Instead, she offers a simple suggestion: slow
investing in a conversation, or just looking at the world without a screen in the way.
As a writer and a poet, McEwen examines the importance of slowing down in order to foster creativity, but finding space for ourselves is important no matter our careers or hobbies. Lawyers, accountants, stay-at-home parents, store managers, and everyone else can benefit from taking a break from all the distractions and making time to live in the moment. “World Enough & Time” is a mix of life advice, spiritual teachings, poems, and memoirs. This book offers a lot to anyone who picks it up and learns McEwen’s core message. “Walking, talking, reading, drawing, praying, telling stories: The nourishment is there, as close as our own breath. We only have to pause a moment, notice, and enjoy.”
down. McEwen claims we suffer from “hurry sickness.” In order to heal ourselves, we need to take a break. This doesn’t mean vanishing to some tropical island. Instead, McEwen encourages embracing simple things like taking a walk,
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