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At this time of the semester, schedules begin to change in a strange way. It suddenly seems that meetings are thinning out and the calendar has more open spaces. Yet (curve ball!), the pressures of deadlines, of finality, of the holidays seem to squeeze those \u201cextra\u201d minutes dry. The vision of a vacation on the horizon seems to make the stretch of reading days and final exams even harder to process.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s slow down.<\/p>\n

Right now.<\/p>\n

I will confess that I have been consuming information like my French bulldog inhales food. (Check out our stressbusters page to see more furry friends<\/a>). I listen to class readings at 2.5x speed on the Speechify app while running errands. I skim books looking for relevant information or further questions to pose in term papers all while feeling the clock ticking towards due dates.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The funny (not funny) thing is that this academic exercise of scheduling plays out in the real world, leaving a great deal of harm in its wake. Carlo Petrini discusses this in his Slow Food Nation, why our food should be good, clean and fair<\/em><\/a>. I first read this book while taking a summer course in Florence, Italy. The vibe of Italian culture is largely to slow down, adagio<\/em>, and simplify. I would pore over this book while enjoying a single piece of lasagna in Piazza Santa Croce for an hour or so. (Books make the best dinner dates!). This is not a book to cram, but to savor. And the prose in turn brings mindfulness to the interaction with food itself, where it comes from and what it does in culture. For more on food\u2019s backstory, check out Becky Diamond\u2019s recent post Food Behind the Scenes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more opportunities to slow down, check out some other activities at NBL on the Books We Read Stressbusters<\/a> page.<\/p>\n

This week, we will have two chamber music performances in Douglass Library<\/a> on December 13th and 16th.<\/p>\n

\"Flyer\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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