On the flip side, here’s the alternative: We find our quiet places—a park down the street, a reading nook at home, a morning routine that begins before the little ones are awake—and we “come away.”23 We take our time. Maybe it’s not a full hour, but we’re there long enough to decompress from all the noise and traffic and stress and nonstop stimulation of modern society. Sometimes all we need is a few minutes. Other times, an hour isn’t enough. Other times, we gratefully take what time we can get. We slow down. Breathe. Come back to the present. We start to feel. At first we feel the whole
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