The Way of Wonder: Invitations and Simple Practices for a Vibrant Life - Rilegato

Pagliei, Patti; Simpson, John

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ISBN 10: 1631069624 ISBN 13: 9781631069628

Casa editrice: Rock Point, 2023

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The Way of Wonder, 9781631069628

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Informazioni sull'autore

Patti Pagliei and John Simpson are a husband-and-wife duo and partners in a creative syndicate that includes the inspirational jewelry brand Waxing Poetic and a weekly newsletter, Here Today, with John and Patti.
 
Their life together has been alighted to the way of wonder through their adventures and artful endeavors, but also several life-changing health, home, and business challenges. Forced to reexamine their perceived limitations, they uncovered the way for this book, which they consider—along with their family and zest for life—one of their greatest successes. They currently live in Santa Barbara, California, with their daughter, Lulu.



 

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Find your way into the wonder of everyday and live a life full of nows with the powerful advice in The Way of Wonder.

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Introduction

We’ve been Waxing Poetic for just over twenty years. A privilege. A lesson in living. A craft. We have consistently served up inspiration and talismans for our community—offering connection and openings to wonder.

So to be able to write a book about wonder, to have pages upon pages to explore the topic after working under its guidance for such a long time, is a serendipitous gift. We are as surprised as can be that this has happened. This is how wonder works.

Over the years, our brand vision at Waxing Poetic has been to magnify the unabashed joy of living a vibrant life through poetry and stories that honor the gift of being here. This work is the basis of this book and the dawn of The Way of Wonder.

It is with a can-do zest that I have taken on the writing of this book as your solo narrator, but the concepts within it have been ideated, teased out, and edited with care through the extraordinary insights of my partner John. In writing this book, I have had the cathartic pleasure of poring over the Waxing Poetic archive: twenty-plus years of poetry, fragments, prose, ideas, conversations, ramblings, and revelations—synthesizing some of our most moving concepts and messages and augmenting these with some new essays and insights.

But truly, the way of The Way of Wonder was uncovered through many late-night kitchen talks, wilderness walks, quiet understandings, and radical awakenings with John. We are co-creators of our life and this book. And co-experiencers. We’ve had our triumphs and thrills, but also trials. We have been through it. We’ve had significant losses and our dreams interrupted: my cancer, our daughter’s illness, and many unforeseen life challenges. It is through all of these things that John and I can compassionately know anything about wonder at all.

Mostly, I know that wonder is an ever-present opening: a way of showing us how to move through life, so we don’t lose ourselves. A way to save us from the tyranny of our heads on a moment-to-moment basis and bring us back into our life. The life we will regret not living later if we don’t live it now. This is what I hope to articulate to you here.

Throughout this book, in some ways small and some vast, we uncover invitations to wonder that await with heart and intention for your journey. All hold the same worthy promise: to imbue your experience of the world with all manner of goodness. There is something so alive and magical about feeling the wonder inside and around you. It doesn’t matter if you are lit by riding a wave, the darting of a hummingbird, a long shooting star, or a dull knife full of Dijon mustard. Get your wonder where you can. Like finding your balance on a bicycle, wonder will always set you right, show you what is possible, and whirl some wind through your hair while doing it.

I’m not pretending I have this licked, but I know that this medicinal fountain is constantly flowing. And I want to help you (and myself, and everyone interested) to drink from it.




 
 

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Rock Point
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1631069624
• ISBN 13: 9781631069628
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 168
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile