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Slow down

February 6, 2015 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

Slow down

Juhan Sonin and his team at Involution Studios capture essential health messages in cards — actual, physical cards that you can stack in a deck or lay out across a table. The front is an arresting image and the back lists evidence and tips. The cards are tactile, delightful artifacts of an ongoing conversation that Invo is holding with the world.

I contributed to a recent newcomer to the deck: Slow Down. I was inspired by Fahd Butt‘s “slowgrams” — the sketches he produced instead of trying to capture life moments with a camera.

Poetry is my personal slow-down hack. I never leave for a trip without tucking a favorite book of poems into my bag. Grace Paley, Billy Collins, and Vera Pavlova are currently seeing a lot of the country.

Because even as I relentlessly gather, share, and create evidence for why peer-to-peer health care will transform our lives, if we let it, I know that my own health and happiness must come first.

For the full Slow Down story, please read: “How a Health Axiom Card is Made.”

Filed Under: beauty and wonder Tagged With: Fahd Butt, Health Axioms, Juhan Sonin, peer-to-peer healthcare, poetry

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  1. Sally Okun says

    February 6, 2015 at 10:50 am

    Per usual your post stops me in my tracks! This one especially since the title alone suggests that very action.

    Thank you for introducing me to Health Axioms and the work of Involution…just wonderful. I feel inspired to finally take the leap and start writing in “The Everydayness of Being” the blog I created last year that remains barren at the moment.

    Wishing you warm thoughts on this frigid day here in MA….Sally

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    • Susannah Fox says

      February 6, 2015 at 5:48 pm

      Warm thoughts back at you, Sally!

      I slowed down today by having tea with the woman who gave me the gift of this site address — my friend Susannah Fox (yep, really). Here’s the story of how we met.

      Let me know when you start that blog!

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  2. Joe McCarthy says

    February 7, 2015 at 5:27 pm

    Nice.

    I’m reminded of related wisdom shared by Oriah Mountain Dreamer in her book, The Dance: Moving to the Deep Rhythms of Your Life:

    Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.

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  3. Briana Morgan says

    February 27, 2015 at 5:16 pm

    Billy Collins is one of my personal favorites. I saw him read when he released “Sailing Alone Around the Room”. I always turn to his poetry when I need to step outside myself.

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