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Book SynopsisLet 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.
Trade Reviewheartwarming
-- Dungarvan Observer
a favourite down the years, Alice Taylor guides us through the steps and ways to live a conscious life and focus on the goodness of the world around us
-- Belfast Telegraph
Let Alice Taylor encourage you to live in the now, to really live your experiences and to treasure the special moments in your life
-- Mummypages.ie
lovely book … All about 'Moments that Matter.' We all have them but are we grateful for them? Alice Taylor can be our guide.
-- Bibi Baskin
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
-- Mummypages
a great book to read
-- Weekly Observer
Ever since she published her first book, To School Through The Fields, she has become one of our best loved writers ... encourages us all to treasure what we have
-- RTE1’s Today Show
Irish writer Alice Taylor offers a heartwarming meditation on the beauty to be found in the world around us. Taylor's natural optimism makes voice pro Jennifer Fitzgerald a wonderful choice to perform this inspiring writing. Her relaxed tone and audible love of Taylor's message conjure memorable conversations we've had with close friends--warm interactions that touched our souls. The audiobook invites us to recognize the goodness within ourselves and to let it guide the way we look at our friends, as well as the details of our surroundings. With charming vignettes set in rural Ireland, this audiobook overflows with gratitude and infectious wonder. Taylor's peaceful approach to life, captured fully in Jennifer Fitzgerald's appealing performance, will remind listeners that joy in life starts with the way we approach it
* Audiofile *
Table of ContentsIntroduction – 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
