Shaving as Slow Spirituality
http://www.jrdkirk.com/2014/07/14/shaving-slow-spirituality/ July 14, 2014 J. R. Daniel Kirk 7 Comments I don’t really know why I felt like I needed to change. Perhaps I’m just susceptible to advertising. But I was running out of cartridge refills for my shaving razor, and options started bombarding my mind. I could join the Dollar Shave Club. Why? Because it’s relatively cheap and I always forget to get new cartridges, and I really don’t care about shaving–so I could not care, someone else could care on my behalf, and razors would just show up. But in the back of my mind, I knew that the really cool kids were doing something else . They were “wet shaving.” They were using something called a “double edged safety razor” that seemed to me anything but safe. And I always wanted to be one of the really cool kids. So now I am in the 10+ minute per day shave club. When the two roads diverged in the yellow wood, I chose heightened attention rather than outsour