"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…mehr
"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"--
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.
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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 v 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
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 v 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
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