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.



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



heartwarming



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



Let Alice Taylor encourage you to live in the now, to really live your experiences and to treasure the special moments in your life



lovely book … All about 'Moments that Matter.' We all have them but are we grateful for them? Alice Taylor can be our guide.



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



a great book to read



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



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