I've been thinking a lot about spaces for slowness since reading this quote in Ursula Kolbe's wonderful book on drawing with children, It's Not a Bird Yet.
She writes,
In another instance Kolbe writes,
She writes,
"As anyone who has watched young pattern-makers knows, they build their configurations slowly, contemplating each step almost meditatively. 'She goes into another world,' aid one mother of her five-year-old pattern-making daughter."
In another instance Kolbe writes,
"...when children make things, they also create spaces for themselves to be in. A special place where they can pursue their own interests, where they feel free to be who the are, where their presence is somehow magnified.”
- Ursula Kolbe in Children's Imagination: Creativity Under Our Noses
The more I observe young makers and indulge my own creative process to allow for slowness, the more I see where spaces for slowness are such a gift to both adults and children.
I love how the slow food movement has embraced this celebration of slowness and am curious where other educators and makers see connections as well.
So refreshing an article, and point of view, really a philosophy!
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