To look closely at the skin of your hand or at the texture of the wallpaper or at the small pieces of dust on the keyboard of your computer: an essential resistance to the age, to the implicit imperative of speed and performance; to slow your pace and the movement of your eyes, to take your time on something, to deliberately stop where you feel forces on all sides telling you to move on: to say no without a word, and linger, not looking for anything, not wanting anything, or expecting anything, but content, satisfied enough by being and seeing where you are.
Gray Haskins 