The series took a necessary pause as many of us were called away from months in the field in Libya and elsewhere.
The composer described listening as a necessary pause before thoughtful action: "Listening is directing attention to what is heard, gathering meaning, interpreting and deciding on action".
The global citizen's call for a five-year freeze on release of GMOs into our agriculture and food systems is a necessary pause that should induce responsibility, sanity and safety in the insane rush to sell GMOs at any cost, including irreversible risks to biodiversity and human health.
Fortunately for both of us, that moment of quiet allowed my daughter the necessary pause to re-gain control of her emotions and to softly say, "I'm sorry, Mama.
4. Leisurely rides > stressful navigation I think the book Mobilities: New Perspectives on Transport and Society said it best: "Social life in the car is full of necessary pauses and interruptions when the driver's attention, and sometimes that of the passengers, has to turn to controlling the vehicle".
Failures are only a necessary pause for your life.
You must freeze in whatever position you happen to stop (when contacting an obstacle in the brush or other necessary pause).
As a new year turns, it's time to go through that silly (but actually necessary) exercise of pausing to reflect.
This generous, lifelong commitment to listening was, perhaps, her most enduring "Sonic Meditation": approaching the world with ears wide open, with as much courage as one could muster, pausing when necessary, and listening deeply.
The sequence is as casual, and somehow as necessary, as Feste's pausing the folderol of "Twelfth Night" to grace us with "Come Away, Death" and his other songs — jester's riffs, of no consequence, except that their swift meditations on mortality and love will linger in the mind's ear long after the play is done.
