{"product_id":"inside-the-flame-isbn-9781941529324","title":"Inside the Flame","description":"\u003ci\u003eInside the Flame \u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eInside the Flame \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eInside the Flame \u003c\/i\u003e 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.Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart One: How We Touch the World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrasp: The Right Fit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoving: Higher, Faster, Farther\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExtreme Play\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollecting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePetting Cats\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOral Fixations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOral Mysteries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExtreme Flavors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlavor Collisions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColor Wheel: the Magenta Jacket\u003cbr\u003ev\u003cbr\u003eActs of Renewal: Meditations of the Hand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFolding Clothes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIroning Meditation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTransformative Dusting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePutting on Makeup\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShape Shifting: Baking Bread\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePersonal Shape Shifting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpace Programs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExpanding the body: Favorite Clothing \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDecorating Space\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpace Shifting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDining by Candlelight\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRites of Memory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeasonal Flavors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaking Mud Pies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLost or Found\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHero Mom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 2: How the World Touches Us\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Seasons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClimbing Amboy Crater\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Gravity of Dawn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSonic Transport\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKissing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEye Candy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSwimming in the Rain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eManagement Issues\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSensory Joy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTextures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAromas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCrushing Bay Leaves\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe bicyclist and the French Lavender\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRussian Leather: my mother's perfume  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImpressions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscomfort Zones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFreestyle Craftiness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVisual Intimacy: Mirrors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTouched Back\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToxic Snow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInnocent Leg and Jumping Cholla  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAttack of the yellow jackets    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHandwriting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWalking\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePogonip\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIsland in the Sky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFridays on Westcliff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLoss: Ceremonies of Death\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLoss Transformed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMagnify This\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 3: Inside the Flame\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Well-Made Home\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOrdinary Objects\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMusic Recaptured\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSomething from Nothing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTelescopes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDefining Moments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToo-Near and No-Where\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Space of Mid-Air\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToo-close Encounters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Overwhelmingly Generic  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe New and Unknown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGoing to Extremes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDefining Moments: Diving through the Waves  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWatching Movies, Extending Space   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDefining Moments: Flying with my Father  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePainting the Rock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUncurated Keepsakes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConnective Tissues\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDefining Moments: Grand Canyon Sunset  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDefining Moments: The Rain Forest  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDefining Moments: Tree Falling on Car  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSensory Webs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDefining Moments: Brahms in London \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll Roads Lead to HomeChristina 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.\u003cb\u003eSearching for Home\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For as long as I can remember, I have returned to the question: How can I feel at home in the world? As an Air Force brat, I had sixteen addresses before I left high school and twenty-one more after that.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Home was an elusive destination. Like the horizon, it was always receding, beyond reach no matter how fast I chased it. Because my family kept moving, home remained not only an elusive somewhere but also a perpetual someday. I longed to have a permanent place to which I belonged, and which would keep safe all my memories of family, friendship, and youthful discovery. For me it became romanticized into an image of a cozy house whose attic was filled with toys, scrapbooks, antique photographs, and outgrown clothes—the tangible perfume of holidays, birthdays, and rites of passage. Feeling at home became the goal of my life; it inspired everything I did. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With all that moving from place to place, I learned to act quickly to connect with people, to grow familiar with my surroundings, and to make friends. I wanted to feel, touch, sing, dance, love, explore, collect, drink, paint, walk, and see everything. Somewhere in all that active engagement I could surely find, or create, the place I sought. At some point I made the unconscious decision that survival meant embracing instability. Home would be wherever I happened to be. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I envied people whose houses had attics stuffed with childhood memorabilia. I gravitated toward friends with large, extended families, saying yes to dinner invitations whenever a grandmother might be at the table. Grandparents symbolized a warm, intimate connection with the past, especially a specific past of a specific family. I had known my own grandparents so briefly in the flurry of moving back and forth across countries and continents and had missed connecting through them to their own homes and origins. I missed being in touch with their rootedness in the era that had led to my own. I longed to ask an elder about her favorite memories, but by the time I reached out, the elders had slipped away. I acquired the sorts of rich, varied, and messy memories that only a wanderer can accumulate. Each encounter took the form of a question: Will this place, person, or act take root and sprout, grow tall and stay with me for the long run? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Perhaps because I had no roots to hold me tight to one path or one place, I was free to explore. In the process I have filled each event in my life with as much color, movement, and awareness as it could hold. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The quest for home has provided me with incredible joys, silly fun, and adventure as well as many awkward moments and occasional terrors. Along the way my attitude of curiosity helped to open doors, metaphorical as well as literal, which would otherwise have remained shut.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book contains some tales of a life lived with all senses\u003cbr\u003e wide open. What follows is a close reading of the worlds contained in ordinary events, the eternities enmeshed in the body’s enjoyment of the senses. Plunging into life with a sense of adventure has reinforced my capacity for excitement and heightened my sensitivity to everything I touch. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is the story of my journey home.","brand":"Parallax Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301029630181,"sku":"NP9781941529324","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781941529324.jpg?v=1767730081","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/inside-the-flame-isbn-9781941529324","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}