Slower

Good day to slow down, veg out and contemplate fruit. Ya think? Press Play and take a minute if you don't have your own. Then take a walk and get some. I'm making an Apple-Pear Upside Down Cake with these.

Clear blue sky where all the leaves were. Just last week, if you wanted color, you looked up. Today, look down. But there is a cool thing you can do with them when it comes down it. You probably haven't done this for a while. Just Press Play for the video refresher course.

Hey - did you see the sun rise? No? OK, here's a second chance. Just Press Play. C'mon. You just got a whole extra hour. Take three minutes to settle into slow motion. A little practice now so you can do it all day long.

It's a little spooky down here, but it's cool. You feel like you're in some surfer version of the underworld. Thirty feet up there, thousands of people. Down here, not a soul. Just the timbers holding up the old pier. Take a minute in a slow, cool place. Just Press Play and drift. Just for a minute.n

Think about climbing to the top of one of those. That ought to slow you down. Yeah, you really had to be there, in Nepal. But take a little break right now, just 90 seconds to look at something spectacularly beautiful. It's Sunday. Just Press Play.

A couple of days of walking and eating your way through Beijing - the constant noise and perpetual motion really get to you. So you drive three hours to the Great Wall, the "Wild Wall" part at Simatai, and what gets you is . . . tranquility. Press Play. Have a tranquil Sunday.

I took The Walk That Ate Venice. Six hours, twelve miles, saw it all. Took the streets, the piazzas, up and down the ancient stairs. Really cool stairs. But now it's Sunday. Take the Slow boat. A two-minute vacation in a different time and place. Just Press Play.

The leaves are starting to show those washed out, late summer army camouflage colors. Better washed out than fallen, I guess. But not as good as bright and colorful. Press Play. Slow Forward to a brilliant start for a Sunday.