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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Slow Holidays: Presence Over Presents

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

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

4.6525 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Continuing the Slow Holidays theme, this week Brooke and Ben talk presence over presents.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast. This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced world.

0:07.3

I'm Brooke McCallory. Thank you very much for joining us today.

0:10.1

My name is Ben McCallery and welcome to episode 214 where we're continuing our Christmas themes.

0:18.3

Holiday themes. Yeah, you're right. The overarching holiday themes.

0:22.5

It's the back end of the year themes.

0:25.4

Yeah.

0:25.8

Well, not everyone celebrates Christmas.

0:28.0

The butt of the year.

0:30.4

Correct.

0:31.1

So this week we're talking about, well, really the theme that we noted down was presence with a C over

0:40.0

presence with a T.

0:43.5

What?

0:44.6

You get to misspell that.

0:47.0

I was just going to say, oh yeah, with like the extra S.

0:51.0

Totally different word.

0:54.1

You know, and I think it's kind of a continuation actually on from episode 210 where we spoke about gifts.

1:02.0

Yeah.

1:02.1

But what I wanted to talk about this week is, I guess, really questioning why we feel so hell-b bent on showing our love this time of year

1:15.0

with stuff.

1:15.8

I know.

1:16.4

It's so true.

1:17.7

So would you say that episode 210 when we did talk about gifts was more like for kid,

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