Thought for the Week: Slow but sure

Judy Clinton considers how 'learning can be available to us in the most mundane of places when we are open to it'

by Judy Clinton 2nd June 2017

A young man started working at our local post office. He was tall, thin, shy and serious. He was very, very slow in attending to customers. He painstakingly and meticulously attached stamps straight and in an equidistant position relative to the corners of envelopes. Money was carefully and slowly put in the relevant places beside him. Parcels were put in the sacks slowly and precisely, and woe betide anyone who had come to renew their road tax or to deal with more complicated matters: every detail was attended to in the same slow and fastidious manner. He addressed customers with quiet, polite respect with the same care – and slowness.