Patience:
Taking Time in an Age of Acceleration

 

In an age when rapid-fire text messaging and the “Slow” movement are both offered as strategies for making the most out of our lives, our ability to negotiate time seems ever more crucial. The chapters here draw from personal experience, accounts of natural phenomena, and considerations from enlightened thinkers that explore the relationship between time, human experience, and the natural world.

  • "In a world that’s often 2 bz for words, Akiko Busch teaches how to master patience with lessons from nature, philosophy, and personal experience."  

    AARP

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Perhaps patience is the ability to calibrate our own experiences and thoughts, our own expectations and actions, to be in some kind of synch with the world around us.