Terry Hershey—author, humorist, inspirational speaker, ordained minister, golf addict—divides his time between designing sanctuary gardens and sharing with the world his practice of "pausing" and "sanctuary" to help us do less and live more. Terry’s newest book, The Power of Pause, offers the permission to slow down, and to be gentle with ourselves, in a world that demands More-Bigger-Faster. Most days, you can find Terry out in his garden-on Vashon Island in the Puget Sound-because he believes that there is something fundamentally spiritual about dirt under your fingernails.

When Terry is in his garden, ambling between roses and perennials, or perhaps checking over his vegetables or herbs, he lives by the motto that "he loses much who has no aptitude for idleness." On Vashon—where ferry is the main mode of travel—this maxim doubles for a rule: if you have to go somewhere on Vashon, you can’t be in a hurry. And yes, Terry tolerates the rain-so long as he is able to spend some time each winter on a golf course in a land where the sun shines bright.