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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Journal #3

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.6525 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2016

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Ben discovers that it's hard to live IN the moment when he's so focused on how to write ABOUT the moment, that this month's experiment is proving difficult.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast. This is episode number 65 and I'm Brooke McAllery and this is Ben.

0:08.9

Yes, it is. How are you? I'm here. Good. How are you?

0:11.7

Good. Have a wonderful time on our trip?

0:34.6

We're in Canada.

0:35.6

We're in Canada for another week or so, but we're having

0:38.4

an amazing time and just popping in to talk to you guys about our slow home experiment for the

0:44.1

month. Our journaling. How's it going? It's good. Like I mentioned last week, I'm surprised by

0:50.7

the challenge of being regular, I have to say.

0:54.5

And part of me thinks that the reason for that is because we don't have a routine as such

0:59.6

when we're on holidays.

1:00.9

I feel like if we did this at home, and it's something that I consider maybe doing another

1:07.3

time, at home it would be easier because we sit down and eat dinner at the same time most

1:12.5

nights and all that kind of thing. But it's going really well. I'm really glad that we're doing it.

1:18.4

I'm enjoying it a lot. The challenge of it for me is both time and regularity, committing to it

1:25.9

regularly and also, like I mentioned last week

1:30.3

kind of not just falling into the trap of doing a bullet point list of the chronological

1:37.3

events of the day yeah they're probably the two things that I'm still as as I mentioned

1:41.4

last week finding probably the most challenging but moving through that I getting through that is proving quite rewarding I'm still, as I mentioned last week, finding probably the most challenging, but moving through

1:45.2

that, getting through that is proving quite rewarding.

1:48.0

I'm enjoying it.

1:48.6

What I like about it is that the kids are wanting to do it.

1:54.2

Yeah.

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