With past reviews, I would sometimes ask before going to sleep for inspiration regarding what I should write in this letter, as if I could expect divine intervention in some dramatic form. I hoped that a dream might tell me something or that I would wake up with a phrase...
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Atmospheric Flowers in Watercolour by Jean Haines (Extract)
“Learn from nature; absorbing as much information as possible until you find yourself breathing life into your art.” At the beginning of each new book that I write, I try to explain to the reader why I am writing and what they can expect from the following pages. You may...
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For the Incredible Beauty of Creation by Pierre Pradervand
The incredible beauty of nature defies the wildest imagination. From the perfection of a tiny alpine flower no one will ever even see to the splendor of a star-studded summer’s night, through the intricate beauty of a seashell to the breathtaking harmony of a spider’s web, all this grandiose symphony...
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Nature’s Blessings
If there is one book I wish I had written myself, because it expresses so exactly where I believe our souls are taking us at the moment, it is Claire Thompson’s Mindfulness and the Natural World. The point of our lives In it, Claire asks a question which to me...
Continue reading...Gentle Art of Blessing – 2010 Edition
About a year ago, Geoff Napier called Cynthia Black, editor in chief of Beyond Words Publishing in the US, to talk about printing an expanded edition of the Gentle Art of Blessing, which had already sold more copies than a typical New York Times bestseller. We felt that Beyond Words...
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