catapult magazine

Items tagged time

• Returning to the end

  Exploring the theme of grief in Terrence Malick’s film The Tree of Life.

• An unmarked path

  A reflection on a father-son tradition.

• The freedom of less

  Taking a simple lifestyle for granted -- and occasionally, as an idol.

• Five lessons about living simply that I still haven’t really learned

  Confessions about the difficulty of living on less.

• For everything there is a season

  On discerning when to practice efficiency and inefficiency.

• My own time

  Giving thanks for the opportunity of commuting.

• A library sketch in three acts

  Pondering efficiency and inefficiency at work.

• In the balance

  A reflection on the seduction of efficiency.

• Lawn mowers and business letters

  Exploring the irony of efficiency in certain forms of technology.

• The human and the holy

  Reflecting on cultural definitions of efficiency and inefficiency.

• Stoop sitting

  In praise of an architectural feature and the habits it engenders.

• Ten ways to savor your time in 2013

  Advice from a pastor, writer and mother of three.

• Praying for slow time

  A meditation on changing expectations for time and spiritual disciplines.

• Given time, giving time

  What would you do with an extra day in the week?

• The time of Dan’s life

  A short fiction reflection on the strangeness of time in our most critical moments.

• Time-line

  The account of a modern day superhero with the power to slow time.

• Making our peace with time

  A review of Julia Scatliff O’Grady’s Good Busy: Productivity, Procrastination, and the Endless Pursuit of Balance.

• Meditation on circular patterns

  Meditation on circular patterns

• Patience and profit

  Learning to see value in the waste of our lives.

• Time is on my side

  Cultivating the texture of life, recipe in hand.

• The tug of “yes” and “no”

  On the joys and challenges of being a caregiver.

• Humans being

  Life lessons from a friend newly retired.

• Saying “yes” to a simpler life

  How priorities can shift after having children.

• Splendid gratitude

  On slowing down enough to see what there is to celebrate.

• Holy days

  Experiencing the sacred, from Theophany to Songkran.

• Everyone needs a to-don’t list

  An important lesson for moving yourself and your organization forward.

• Sharing a bathroom with sisters

  The joys and challenges of sharing space and limited privacy.

• Zero time

  On making space to let the news shape us, and our opinions.

• From Stephens Street to Tulip Road

  It’s a long way, and yet not so far, between then and now.