LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
ART STREIBER
Change
of Heart
I
N THIS WEEK’S issue, we’re featuring a
post that earlier this
month became a phenomenon on The Huffington Post,
with well over a million “likes” on
Facebook: Rachel Macy Stafford’s
“The Day I Stopped saying ‘Hurry
Up.’” Rachel, a special education
teacher, brings us into her hectic life — a life of early morning
appointments, lightning-quick
lunches, and constantly looking
ahead to what comes next. “My
thoughts and actions were controlled by electronic notifications,
ring tones, and jam-packed agendas,” she writes. “And although
every fiber of my inner drill sergeant wanted to be on time to every activity on my overcommitted
schedule, I wasn’t.”
It takes someone special — her
daughter — to free Rachel from
this vicious cycle of trying and
failing to keep up with her overstuffed agenda, while never paus-
HUFFINGTON
08.25.13
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