Savor the Moment: A Taste of Le Slow Living
Can 15 Minutes Change Your Life?
What if you gave yourself permission to be unproductive—for just fifteen minutes? No screens, no scrolling, no multi-tasking. Just you, a small pleasure, and the quiet hum of your life.
I usually roll out about 5:05 a.m. It happens like clockwork every day. No alarm. Just instinct for the day ahead. The full day ahead; meals, workouts, splinters, Nerf bullets, cat barf, emails, weeds, lost socks, text messages, relationships, crumbs, hashtags, photography, filming, editing, kisses, broken eggs, lint traps…
Modern life, family life, homeschool life, entrepreneur life… call it what you want, you’ve got it too - LIFE. And it does its best to bulldoze over you every chance it gets. And so, if we’re going to do this romantic, French-inspired-living-thing, then we need to embrace “le Slow Living” whenever and wherever we can.
I call it le slow living. I’m not sure if the French would say it that way, but I like to think they’d nod in approval... slowly. This le Slow Living is a mindset rooted in the everyday luxuries the French embrace—lingering over a meal, letting a thought finish, noticing beauty in the ordinary.
French speakers do sometimes use “slow living” in lifestyle, design, and wellness contexts—but they usually keep it in English. It’s considered a borrowed, stylish term (like "le brunch" or "le selfie").
Occasionally, you’ll see phrases like:
le slow life
le mode de vie slow
le mouvement slow
In France, they might not say “slow living,” but they live it—long lunches, quiet Sundays, small pleasures taken seriously.
My life cooks, all day long - WOOSH - it’s suddenly bedtime, and so throughout the day I make an effort, a few times to simply do ONE THING. Fully.
Enough with efficiency, enough with multitasking. I’m a pro.
But I’d rather be known as a pro of le Slow Living.
Standing barefoot in my garden with coffee and no phone
Eating one square of good chocolate with total attention
Watching the sky change color like it’s the main event of the day
You can do this. I promise you won’t get behind, children won’t starve, laundry will still get done, emails will still get composed - But you CAN do ONE thing at ONE time - giving yourself wholly and presently to it, taking in anything and everything that one thing has to offer. (I’m especially good at this in Paris - that’s code for: come with me:) Here, it takes a bit more discipline.
Your nervous system and your enjoyment of life will thank you, and below, I’ve got a handy little printable PDF to get you started for the month of June.
