And Life Lights Up

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 weniger anzeigen expand_less