Why Renewal?
References
You may find these books and web links helpful as you explore the case for renewal and balance.
In Praise Of Slow - How A Worldwide Movement Is Challenging The Cult of Speed - Carl Honore
A thoughtful challenge to the pressures of pace. Profiles various aspects of the slow movement and supports the value of living at 'tempo giusto' - the right speed.
Faster - The Acceleration Of Just About Everything - James Gleick
A well-researched investigation into the driving causes of the accelerated pace of today's world.
Margin - How To Create The Emotional, Physical, Financial & Time Reserves You Need - Richard A. Swenson
The case for re-establishing margin in our lives - that leeway that once existed between the loads we carry and our limits.
Take Back Your Time - Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty In America - John de Graaf, Editor
Articles by leaders of the vanguard movement for a more balanced American life.
www.cprn.org/en/doc.cfm?doc=52
Work-life Balance In The New Millenium: Where Are We? Where Do We Need To Go? - Linda Duxbury & Chris Higgins
The latest in a series of in-depth studies from Canada's premiere researches in the field of work-life balance.
www.simpleliving.net
A resource rich web site from The Simple Living Network that offers tools, examples & contacts for conscious, simple, healthy & restorative living.
www.simpleliving.net/timeday/default.asp
The official website for 'Take Back Your Time' movement, a major U.S./Canadian initiative to challenge the epidemic of overwork, over-scheduling and time famine that now threatens our health, our families and relationships, our communities and our environment. October 24th Is Take Back Your Time Day
For a complete listing of references and web links, visit the Pauseworks Library.
To recommend a valuable resource you think should be added to the reference list, contact the Pausemeister.
"We collect data, things, people, ideas, profound experiences, never penetrating any of them ... But there are other times. There are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper."
-James Carroll
