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to begin to pursue radical contentment, and true rest. Cultivating a life where I can give myself more fully to the things I’m passionate about because I’ve got the energy to give it.

This is The Way.

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I finished the image off in Photoshop, and submitted it for DAMzine’s Photography Issue.

It’s meant to visually depict that frenetic pace, and by using a mostly muted colour pallet, invite the viewer to pause and reflect a little while, and find where hurry is doing violence to their soul and

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I took the multiple long exposure image and began to edit it on my iPhone, I eventually AirDropped it to my Mac + cleaned up a couple details in Photoshop before it was back to my iPhone for more of the destructive and intensely texturized photo editing process I do on much of my other work.

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I was reflecting on the frenetic pace that I and most others live their lives at and how even at night, there is still the constant din of traffic that most of us are aware of.

There’s always somewhere to be. Something to do.

But what if it’s doing violence to the core of who we are?

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I took an evening a while back to go and play around with some lenses I’d ordered about a year and a half ago when my wife and I found out we were expecting…

I drove to a bridge overlooking a highway here in Canada, and took multiple long exposure shots of the traffic passing by…

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“Our time is our life, and our attention is the doorway to our hearts.”

“Because where you put your resources is where you put your heart. It’s the steering wheel to your engine of desire.”

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So what? And how does this relate AT ALL to “The Way”?

I’m glad you asked…

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In it he writes:

“…so often we assume pathological busyness is okay. After all, everybody else is busy too. But what if busyness isn’t healthy? What if it’s….wreaking havoc on our collective soul?”

The cold hard truth?

Hurry is stealing from me.
And I’m letting it.

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My life often feels this way.

I've been reading this book: The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer, and it's been eye-opening to say the least.

I am beginning to ruthlessly eliminate hurry from my life.

To be clear, there is a difference between working hard and working hurried.

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There’s really no sugar-coating it.

Most of us are suffering from hurry-sickness.

It’s not a new thing. Meyer Friedman and R.H. Rosenman we’re talking about it all the way back in 1985.

Do you feel an undercurrent of anxiety, that you’re always behind, always playing catch up, never done?

This is mesmerizing. 😍

Gm Parin!