The Tortoise Diaries: Daily Meditations for Creativity and Slowing Down - Softcover

McEwen, Christian

 
9780872331815: The Tortoise Diaries: Daily Meditations for Creativity and Slowing Down

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We called him tortoise because he taught us.Lewis CarrollA daily reader of prayer and meditation in serving the practice of lectio divina or divine reading based on the twelve chapters of Christian McEwen's 2011 book called World Enough Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down.Focusing in turn on different subjects, each month introduces a new subject ranging from the art of slowing down, considering good company and conversation, investigating child time, to the joys and relaxation to be found in walking. Those who are familiar with Christian's original text will recognize many of the entries, which have been arranged so as to flow smoothly from one to the next, helping to deepen and clarify each particular theme.The title is drawn, with laughing gratitude, from Lewis Carroll (see the epigraph, above), though it has more ancient origins too. In The Tortoise Diaries, Christian McEwen gives her readers beautiful insight of how slowness can open doors to sustained creativity.

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Christian McEwen is a writer, educator and cultural activist, and the author of World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down, now in its eighth printing. She has edited four anthologies, including Jo’s Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure;  The Alphabet of the Trees: A Guide to Nature Writing;  Sparks From the Anvil: The Smith College Poetry Interviews, and Legal Tender: Women & The Secret Life Of Money. Her newest book, In Praise of Listening, will be released this fall with Bauhan Publishing. McEwen grew up in the Borders of Scotland, and came to the States on a Fulbright Scholarship. She currently lives in Williamsburg. MA. She has enjoyed residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo, as well as the Millay Colony, Hedgebrook, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts,  and a  number of other centers. In 2011, she received a grant in playwriting from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.  -

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