{"product_id":"between-earth-and-sky-isbn-9781967175024","title":"Between Earth and Sky","description":"\u003cb\u003eA transformative 100-day exploration through the seemingly desolate lands of Mexico's \"place of the dead\" etches a path of collapse and renewal, documented in poignant, imaginative prose and remarkable macro lens photography.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA visually arresting and contemplative giftable object that pairs luminous, full color macro photography from the stark, mythical deserts of Oaxaca, Mexico with short, reflective prose rooted in mindfulness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the loss of his career and identity as a New York City journalist, Jo Confino finds himself in pandemic exile in Mitla, Mexico—the “place of the dead”—where the silence of the landscape becomes the canvas for a radical unlearning. The book that emerged, compact and aesthetic, is a tactile, treasured companion for personal reflection or ritual space.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by the Engaged Zen teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh and the tradition of mindfulness, these reverent pages invite the reader to slow down, look deeply, and encounter impermanence, interconnection, and endless mystery. The spritiual arc—from disintegration to insight and renewal—the author discovers offers a map through global disruption and toward rootedness in unfamiliar places.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracing 100 days of unexpected lockdown, \u003ci\u003eBetween Earth and Sky \u003c\/i\u003efolds together memoir, photographic meditation, and spiritual inquiry to create a fresh, poetic take on ecological awareness and spiritual resilience in a time of crisis that speaks to anyone who’s ever been brought to their knees by change and found something sacred in the dust.\"The writing and photography that emerged from Jo Confino’s one hundred days of quiet reflection carry a lived-in clarity—the sensitivity of someone who has sat with both collapse and renewal and was able to touch what his teacher, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, calls the 'ultimate dimension.' These pages open a subtle threshold into a deeper way of seeing. To read these pages and linger with these images is to be drawn into a meditation.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Chris Levine, artist and photographer of the \u003ci\u003eLightness of Being\u003c\/i\u003e portrait of Queen Elizabeth II“A stunning compilation of images and words that collaborate\u003cbr\u003ein entraining the reader not only into the high-resolution\u003cbr\u003euniverses and challenges that Jo’s camera and commentary so\u003cbr\u003emagnificently capture and celebrate, but even more\u003cbr\u003eimportantly, into our own musings on the precarity and\u003cbr\u003epreciousness of life and its endless wonders and challenges. It\u003cbr\u003ereminds us in every momen—wherever we find ourselves, no\u003cbr\u003ematter how difficult the circumstances—not to miss what is\u003cbr\u003ebefore us and all around us. This book is a moving and deeply\u003cbr\u003eilluminating oeuvre; a masterpiece in a singular genre of its\u003cbr\u003eown.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, founder of Mindfulness-\u003cbr\u003eBased Stress Reduction (MBSR) and author of\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWherever You Go, There You Are\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The writing and photography that emerged from Jo Confino’s\u003cbr\u003eone hundred days of quiet reflection carry a lived-in\u003cbr\u003eclarity—the sensitivity of someone who has sat with both\u003cbr\u003ecollapse and renewal and was able to touch what his teacher,\u003cbr\u003eZen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, calls the ‘ultimate dimension.’\u003cbr\u003eThese pages open a subtle threshold into a deeper way of\u003cbr\u003eseeing. To read these pages and linger with these images is to\u003cbr\u003ebe drawn into a meditation.”\u003cbr\u003e—Chris Levine, artist and photographer of the\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLightness of Being\u003c\/i\u003e portrait of Queen Elizabeth II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Through the skillful and mindful lens of his camera, Jo Confino\u003cbr\u003ereveals astonishing miniature worlds in Mexico's desert-like\u003cbr\u003eOaxacan valley, which is teeming with universal dramas of life\u003cbr\u003eand death. His exquisite photography is wrapped in irresistible\u003cbr\u003estorytelling of his search for a deeper path through globally\u003cbr\u003edisrupted times. In so doing, Confino invites every one of us to\u003cbr\u003erecognize the extraordinary fractal emotional landscapes that\u003cbr\u003eare hidden in our own everyday experience. The result is\u003cbr\u003eheart-stoppingly beautiful.”\u003cbr\u003e—Kate Raworth, author of \u003ci\u003eDoughnut Economics\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A genre-defying travelogue that seamlessly blends Zen\u003cbr\u003ewisdom with awe-inspiring photography to capture a candid\u003cbr\u003eprocess of deepening self-awareness and enlightenment at a\u003cbr\u003etime when the world went dark. Jo Confino’s latest book\u003cbr\u003ebeautifully embodies the Buddhist precept that when\u003cbr\u003esomething big gets in the way (such as a global pandemic),\u003cbr\u003ethere is no way around it—it is itself the way.”\u003cbr\u003e—Britt Wray, PhD, author of \u003ci\u003eGeneration Dread\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003cbr\u003edirector of CIRCLE, a research and action initiative\u003cbr\u003efocused on Community-minded Interventions for\u003cbr\u003eResilience, Climate Leadership, and emotional well-\u003cbr\u003ebeing in the Stanford University School of Medicine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this exquisite, extraordinary book, Jo Confino combines\u003cbr\u003ehauntingly beautiful images of the very small and his own\u003cbr\u003edeeply felt experience of the desert to give us insights\u003cbr\u003eonto the largest questions of life. A \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e—Rebecca M. Henderson, author of \u003ci\u003eReimagining\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCapitalism in a World on Fire\u003c\/i\u003eJo Confino is a leadership coach, spiritual mentor, facilitator, journalist, author, and sustainability expert. He works at the intersection of personal transformation and systems change and his coaching practice focuses on supporting leaders within the fields of climate, biodiversity and social justice. As a journalist for more than forty years, he was executive editor as well as Impact, Innovation, and Editorial Director of What’s Working at the \u003ci\u003eHuffPost\u003c\/i\u003e in NewYork. Before joining \u003ci\u003eHuffPost\u003c\/i\u003e, he was an executive editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, helping to create the environment, sustainable business, and global development websites as well as being responsible for ensuring the media organization lived its own values. A mindfulness advocate, Jo has worked closely with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and his monastic community in southwestern France for nearly twenty years.","brand":"Parallax Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48232973959397,"sku":"NP9781967175024","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781967175024.jpg?v=1767722504","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/between-earth-and-sky-isbn-9781967175024","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}