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    What is the hurry?

    How speed = stress In his latest book, In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed, Canadian journalist Carl Honore touts the benefits of slow living. Honore claims that the old paradigm “time is money” is being replaced by the “slow movement” model. Slow living produces more pleasure and better health. The slow city…

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    Where Do You Go

    Escape is necessary. Modern lives demand a lot of us, sometimes 24/7. How do you escape your chaos? Do you accrue time and stress before you escape? Or do you go as needed? Travel in the last decade has changed. Since 9/11, air travel is now a security experience. Green travel is no longer just…

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    Going home

    Most of us have a fanasty of an ideal home and an ideal hometown. Maybe it started with watching Leave it to Beaver. Or maybe it was visiting a friend and experiencing a different kind of town. We all strive to find that place where we feel at home. So much of this idealized home…

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    Welcome to OwenMarcus.com

    Welcome to OwenMarcus.com As humans, we’ve always had communities to help us, to protect us and to share the pleasure of life. With today’s virtual communities, we have the chance to enrich our real communities through expanding our virtual community to include those who share our passion for living a whole life. Feeding the Whole…