And Life Lights Up

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Let Alice Taylor encourage you to live in the now, to really live your experiences and to treasure the special moments in your life. With Alice as a guide, explore the steps and ways to live a conscious life and focus on the goodness of the world around us. Alice's beautiful and captivating writing is an act of mindfulness in itself, and she shares her favourite moments in life, encouraging us to ponder our own. Alice also inspires the reader to be attentive to the here and now and embrace moments as they arise. A beautiful and enchanting book by a bestselling and celebrated author. Table of Contents Introduction – Golden Moments 9 Part 1 AWARENESS Out of Our Minds page 15 Meeting the Morning 21 Repairs and Maintenance 29 Afternoon Tea 35 An Ordinary Day 39 Finding My Feet 45 The Wonder of Wood 51 Take Good Care of Me 56 Part 2 ROOTS Beauty from Boredom 67 The Gap 73 The Well 77 The Fort Field 82 The Sacred Earth 90 Part 3 SPECIAL MOMENTS IN THE GARDEN Dancing with the Day 101 Red and Yellow 104 Black Gold 107 Blue Brilliance 112 Fresh Flowers 115 Waiting … 124 The Plantsman 129 An Old Tree 133 Part 4 SMALL KINDNESSES The Black Bubble 143 Beautiful Mind 147 Battered Chalice 152 Never Suppress a Good Impulse 156 Let It Be 161 A Passing Kindness 165 Part 5 THEN AND NOW The Agony and the Ecstasy 172 A Time to Write 178 From There to Here 182 Refeathering the Nest 189 It Takes So Long to Say Goodbye 193 Both Sides Now 197