The economic slowdown might just have taught us to slow down. I've heard it time and again. People don't want to rush or live their lives in haste. They want to embrace what's truly important. And that might mean listening to your child tell you about his day for twenty minutes instead of answering the phone.
I chat on the phone with my editor at St. Martin's Press for the first time today. I had to call her back after getting my son settled, my daughter off to riding lessons and a client from London on a conference call. I had the most delightful conversation with her once we reconnected. I learned she is actually from Baden Württemburg, just like my husband. The thought of embracing a mindful life thrilled her. And my book shows you how. Writing it, or as I have been saying all along, 'channeling it', has been a remarkable journey. As I wrote to a journalist friend of mine:
I cried today. Not because I received one of your moving essays, although I always do when I read them, but because I finished the final chapter of my latest book about our relationship to time.
I am in the throes of revision and review. Hopefully, I'll finish that process up in a day or two. Then I will forward it to my editor for a glance-over. I hope she likes it. It is, as my filmmaker friend said, 'my truth'.
