Slow Spotlight: Rachel Shenk
So many people have inspired me on my own journey towards living a slower, simpler and more seasonal life, and I’d love you to be inspired too.
From Belgium, via Spain and Scotland, to the midwestern U.S.,
and her husband have cultivated a way to live that embraces simplicity, slow living, or what she calls, focused living, that naturally follows the seasonal rhythms. Influenced by the back-to-the-earth movement, they have combined her love of baking bread and her husband, Jim’s work as a luthier of guitars and mandolins, to create a life which allows them to be more aware of the smallest changes around them, focusing on the process rather than the outcome. In this Slow Spotlight, she shares more of their own journey towards a slower, simpler and more seasonal life.
Read more over on the Journal at A Life More Creative.
What a heartfelt interview, it does make you feel less alone to know others are creating a life linked with the past 🌱
This was fascinating to read David, particularly what was said about lost skills and crafts. We have created a throw away society caused by cheap imports. I remember in my childhood, my local city Leicester was known for its knitwear and clothes factories which my mum was a part of. They are all but gone now. Gone because the shops began importing poor quality clothing.