Slower

Fire. The original Better Cheaper Slower energy technology. Keeps you warm. Cooks your food. For free. Don't have your own? Borrow mine. How's that for 21st century? Bookmark a fireplace and click back anytime. Just Press Play. Light a fire. Merry Christmas.

Fifty or so of these 18th century angels, and some cherubs, are living in a tree in New York this month. In The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Where you can come in from the cold, take a nice long walk and a nice long look at the Christmas Tree. Just Press Play.

Took 300 million years to make it. Nice to sit next to it. Still very beautiful in its twilight years. Press Play. Be still for a minute. Have a really good Sunday.

Find some time to go out in the woods or into the park. Lie down on your back. Look up. Great Sunday activity. Press Play for the 60-second trailer. The full-length feature's showing right now in your neighborhood.

My double-blooming irises actually had their second bloom this year, just in time for Thanksgiving. Spring blossoms in Fall. That got my attention. Hope it gets yours. Just for a minute. You know. Be here now. Right here. Right now. Nothing else. You and this iris. Good Slower practice on a Sunday.

Back before cameras, making a picture of something - a turkey, for example - was slow going. If you wanted to show the detail of a feather, you had to draw every one of its hundreds of filaments. Tens of thousands of them for the whole bird. Press Play. Watch Slowly. Carefully. It'll only take a minute.

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.