Christina Waters

Inside the Flame (eBook, ePUB)

The Joy of Treasuring What You Already Have

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Inside the Flame invites readers to unplug their computers, cell phones, and televisions and plunge back into overlooked nooks and crannies of everyday experience. We've lost touch with the richness of the tangible and with it our reverence for the physical world. Our ability to focus on the here and now is in crisis. By illuminating ways to take a closer look at the world around, Inside the Flame will help readers heighten their surroundings, tune the volume more precisely, and live lives that are fuller, richer, more mindful, and more compassionately interwoven with others. Inside the Flame illustrates how attentive experience brings the world close, and how the world responds by infusing us with bold colors, memorable textures, and a more widely open heart.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Parallax Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781941529331
• Artikelnr.: 47078075

Autorenporträt

Christina Waters is a fifth generation Californian who grew up in an Air Force family, living in France, Germany, and Virginia before returning to Santa Cruz to where she earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy. For the past two and a half decades Waters has worked as a journalist specializing in the arts, film, food, and wine for a variety of San Francisco Bay area and national publications. She has been nominated three times for James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards, and has lectured in Art, Environmental Ethics, and Film at UCSC for the past 20 years. A lifelong musician, Waters performs with the Cabrillo College Symphonic Choir and the UCSC Concert Choir.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part One: How We Touch the World
Grasp: The Right Fit
Moving: Higher, Faster, Farther
Extreme Play
Collecting
Petting Cats
Oral Fixations
Oral Mysteries
Extreme Flavors
Flavor Collisions
Exploring
Color Wheel: the Magenta Jacket
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Acts of Renewal: Meditations of the Hand
Folding Clothes
Ironing Meditation
Transformative Dusting
Putting on Makeup
Shape Shifting: Baking Bread
Personal Shape Shifting
Space Programs
Expanding the body: Favorite Clothing
Decorating Space
Space Shifting
Dining by Candlelight
Rites of Memory
Seasonal Flavors
Making Mud Pies
Lost or Found
Hero Mom
Part 2: How the World Touches Us
The Seasons
Climbing Amboy Crater
The Gravity of Dawn
Sonic Transport
Kissing
Eye Candy
Swimming in the Rain
Management Issues
Sensory Joy
Textures
Aromas
Crushing Bay Leaves
The bicyclist and the French Lavender
Russian Leather: my mother's perfume
Impressions
Discomfort Zones
Freestyle Craftiness
Visual Intimacy: Mirrors
Touched Back
Toxic Snow
Innocent Leg and Jumping Cholla
Attack of the yellow jackets
Handwriting
Walking
Pogonip
Island in the Sky
Fridays on Westcliff
Loss: Ceremonies of Death
Loss Transformed
Magnify This
Part 3: Inside the Flame
A Well-Made Home
Ordinary Objects
Music Recaptured
Something from Nothing
Telescopes
Defining Moments
Too-Near and No-Where
The Space of Mid-Air
Too-close Encounters
The Overwhelmingly Generic
The New and Unknown
Going to Extremes
Defining Moments: Diving through the Waves
Watching Movies, Extending Space
Defining Moments: Flying with my Father
Painting the Rock
Uncurated Keepsakes
Connective Tissues
Defining Moments: Grand Canyon Sunset
Defining Moments: The Rain Forest
Defining Moments: Tree Falling on Car
Sensory Webs
Defining Moments: Brahms in London
All Roads Lead to Home