Me and Arianna Huffington today
by Carl Honoré · November 19, 2009
Today at 3pm EST in the US, I’ll be doing a live webcam chat with Arianna Huffington about the Slow revolution. Log in, ask questions, disagree, make suggestions, laugh at the funny side of fast and slow.
See you there!
Just click http://tiny.cc/XjrSp….
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Hi Mr Honoré!
My name is Lisa Schirmer. I am 17 years old, I live in Elsass (in France), and I read your book “In Praise of Slowness” (do you know it is called “Eloge de la lenteur” in French?). I thought it may make you happy to know your readers’ feelings about your book, so I decided to send this e-mail to you. Here in France, we don’t have this mad rythm there is in other countries, in the USA for example : there is a law to instaure 35 hours of work per week, and my week at high school has “only” 30 hours. However, I am naturally quite slow, and people sometimes make remarks : the last one to go off the bus, to eat her meal, this is always me. When I saw your book in the shop, my boyfriend laughed and told me : “This one, it is for you!” In one way, he had right : your book made me consider slowness in an other way, and it brought me ways of reflexion. I consider now slowness as a sort of wisdom and patience, and I try to apply it in some aspects of everyday life : whereas I felt very worried and stressed because of my homeworks when I came back home, I actually organize my evenings to always have a “reading moment” before sleeping, I sometimes cook with my family, I take care of my plants in my bedroom, and I spend more time to WRITE letters (and not e-mails or sms) to my friends, for example.
Nevertheless, all things are not like that, there always is this hurry to live and grow up in my head and in my friends’ heads, but it is quite normal, and this Slow movment gave me a way of thinking slower, and a lot of serenity.
Thanks.
Comment by Lisa
— November 29, 2009 @ 2:58 am
Bonjour Lisa!
Thank you so much for writing. Delighted the book struck a chord with you. You’re lucky to have grasped the joy of slow at such a young age.
Yes, it’s strange to see my book in so many languages. Very strange. But also wonderful to think that people all over the world are warming to the idea of slow.
I wish you all the best in your life. Stay true to your tempo giusto!
Amicalement,
Carl
Comment by Carl Honoré 95.177.28.66 not found — November 30, 2009 @ 3:38 am
Hello Carl
Dylan Bell here, musician/songwriter/fellow Canadian. I just read “In Praise of Slow” this summer, and loved it. In fact, the book (and the Slow Movement in general) inspired me to write this little piece. It’s called “K.I.S.S. (Keep it Simple, Sunshine)” You can listen to it here:
http://www.dylanbell.ca
and download it here:
http://dylanbell.bandcamp.com
Hope you like it! Thanks for the inspiration.
Yours, in tempo giusto
Dylan
Comment by Dylan bell
— December 21, 2009 @ 7:26 pm
The song rocks, Dylan! I’m going to download it right now.
And I won’t mind what the download speed is…
Comment by Carl Honoré
— December 22, 2009 @ 2:54 am
I am blown away and so inspired by your writing. Will you be traveling to the US anytime soon to speak? I’d love to have you speak at our school
Comment by Debbie Knight 173.76.154.131 not found — January 5, 2010 @ 2:37 pm
Delighted that the writing has struck a chord, Debbie! As it happens, I’m off to the US on Monday. Will write to you more via email…
Comment by Carl Honore
— January 6, 2010 @ 2:04 am
Hi Carl:
I wanted to say that I really enjoyed your boo In Praise of Slowness. I picked it up about 4-5 years go… not by choice, but, just happened upon it and oddly enough, I couldn’t put it down. I also had been grappling with the ridiculous hustle and bustle of NY and was tiring of it. Needless to say, I am in a yoga program that has helped me to slow down. Thanks so much for your contribution by writing your book. I want to know if their is a mailing list I can get on regarding your website. I looked for it but, couldn’t find it.
In slowness,
Nicole Hansen
Comment by Nicole Hansen
— January 6, 2010 @ 12:03 pm
Thanks for writing, Nicole.
Very pleased the book struck a chord and that you’re now in touch with your inner tortoise. Yoga is amazingly helpful that way.
If you want to follow me on my site, you just click RSS Feed in the side window under Sundries. I’ll be revamping the site soon but that should keep you linked up in the meantime.
Also, you can sign up to http://www.slowplanet.com - it’s a global forum for all things slow.
Lastly, I tweet (slowly, of course!). My Twitter name is: carlhonore.
Funny coincidence: I’m going to give a talk in New York next week. Weather permitting…
Very best wishes.
Carl
Comment by Carl Honore
— January 7, 2010 @ 1:36 am