https://martmarib.com/categories/slowliving.html Recent content in SlowLiving on Mart-Mari Breedt Hugo en-US Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:30:00 +0000 https://martmarib.com/blog/when-everything-has-priority.html Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:30:00 +0000 https://martmarib.com/blog/when-everything-has-priority.html <p>Stepping into our house the other day, I caught the tail end of a conversation between my husband and our youngest son. They were discussing some computer game he was playing, and the sentence I overheard—completely out of context—was: <em>“If everything has priority, then nothing has priority.”</em></p> <p>A revelation and a half for a thirteen-year-old, I thought. But then again, this is the same child who, a few years ago, at a resort displaying the sign <em>“We’re proudly cashless,”</em> asked, “Is that just a fancy way of saying they’re poor?” So I’ve come to expect his bright little flashes of insight.</p>